ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

HAMLET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In which country is the play Hamlet set?
A
Sweden
B
England
C
Denmark
D
Scotland
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Did you know? Elsinore. 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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-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: -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.

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