Hamlet in Africa 1607

Abstract

In your mind’s eye, I would like to conjure up a company of British seamen, far from home. These men will spend the afternoon on shore, sweating, shooting an elephant. 2 But in the cool of the morning they gather on board ship for a different kind of sport. Within sight of conspiratorial packs of long-tailed monkeys on the rocks, within earshot of the estuary’s cranes and pelicans, a sailor steps onto the deck. 3 He holds a weapon that combines a spear with a hatchet. He points this weapon in the direction of another man, and says, “Who’s there?”—The first words of Shakespeare spoken outside of Europe. 4 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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