ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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. Hamlet sees the ghost of his father.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-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: -Like most of Shakespeare’s plays, Hamlet is not set in a specific year or even decade. Shakespeare does not specify in the text, and there are few context clues. Generally, Hamlet is thought to be set some time in the 1300s or 1400s.