FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Sweden
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England
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Denmark
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Scotland
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Kronborg Castle is also world famous as the setting of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hamlet is summoned home to Denmark for his father’s funeral where a ghost appears who claims to be the former king, Hamlet’s father. The ghost claims Hamlet’s father was murdered by Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius, who then married Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, and took the throne.
Detailed explanation-4: -The story of Hamlet is set in the late middle ages (14th and 15th centuries, or 1300 to 1499) in and around (mostly) the royal palace in Elsinore, a city in Denmark.
Detailed explanation-5: -In Hamlet, there are numerous references made to other countries which include France, Germany, Norway, Poland, and England. Despite these locations, the majority of the play occurs in and around Elsinore Castle, located in Denmark.