Shipboard Performances and Entertainments
Shipboard Performances and Entertainments
This refers to the old shipping practice
South African examples
1600(?): Francois Pyrard (fl 1600), a French passenger on a Portuguese ship sailing past the Cape of Good Hope, recorded the presentation of "a very pretty comedy that had been got ready and rehearsed on the way from Goa to the Cape, to be played when [they] passed it".
1608: Captain W. Keeling (fl. 1600) , commander of the Dutch East India Company's ship The Dragon recorded a number of shipboard performances of Shakespeare (Hamlet, Richard II, etc) as they sailed from Sierra Leone to the Cape of Good Hope.
Sources
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