Sulayman Al-Bassam’s The Al-Hamlet Summit: Introduction
By Graham Holderness | July 26, 2013Shakespeare touched the Arab world astonishingly early. In 1608, during the 3rd voyage of the East India Company, on the island of Socotra at the entry to the Gulf of Aden, the crew of the Red Dragon staged a performance of Hamlet, a play then less than a decade old, and published only 5 years previously. Read More