ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -It is Shakespeare’s longest play, with 29, 551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet’s father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet’s mother.

Detailed explanation-2: -Elsinore is a real place between Denmark and Sweden and the whole play is set in the castle there. In the play it is referred to as Elsinore Castle but the only castle that actually existed in that town was called Kronborg Castle and it still stands today. Hamlet sees the ghost of his father.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare set Hamlet in Elsinore, a remote royal castle in Denmark where the action is set in various parts of the castle. There’s also one scene that takes place away from the castle on “a plain in Denmark”.

Detailed explanation-4: -Those are echoed in the moral state of a Denmark dying from corruption with images of madness, drunkenness, murder, adultery, whoring, espionage, and war. Hamlet complains that the very air that he breathes is a “foul and pestilent congregation of vapours, ” He is rotting with a “diseased will, ” paralyzed by it.

Detailed explanation-5: -Kronborg Castle – Home of Hamlet This is it – the actual castle that Shakespeare set Hamlet in! There are many mysteries surrounding Shakespeare and whether or not he ever visited Kronborg Castle is one of them.