On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Hamlet was performed by The American Company in Philadelphia with an original prologue written by William Eddis, that extolled “the sweets of Liberty”. Even at the theater, there was no escaping Americans’ demands for their rights.

Source: https://research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/DigitalLibrary/view/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports%5CRR0057.xml&highlight=#n850 at p. 231 (the prologue was reported in the Philadelphia Packet‘s issue of November 15, 1773 and presumably had been running all week)