FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Paris, France
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Wittenberg University, Germany
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Elsinore Castle, Denmark
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Elsinore Castle, Germany
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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: -Kronborg Castle is also world famous as the setting of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Kronborg Castle was admired for its beauty as a castle and feared for its strength as a fortress.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Elsinore” is the English spelling of Helsingør, a town on the eastern coast of Denmark. In Shakespeare’s lifetime, Helsingør was an important military location, the stronghold from which the King of Denmark controlled a narrow stretch of sea.
Detailed explanation-4: -The setting of the castle is both the motivation for the characters and their downfall. The setting of Denmark is pivotal to how the play is driven as if it was a person in the play.
Detailed explanation-5: -Elsinore, Denmark: in and around the royal palace 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.