FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Paris
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Wittenburg
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London
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Elsinore
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Detailed explanation-1: -Set in 1517 at Hamlet’s alma mater, Wittenberg University in Germany, the script takes a plethora of teasing, erudite liberties with fact and fiction.
Detailed explanation-2: -But when Shakespeare sent Hamlet to university at Wittenberg, he got it exactly right. Wittenberg lies on the Elbe River, which flows from east to west across north Germany, reaching the North Sea at Hamburg.
Detailed explanation-3: -Prince Hamlet is said to have studied in Wittenberg and it was the supposed home of Dr. Faustus. Wittenberg is seat of the Leucorea which is part of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, the largest university in Saxony-Anhalt.
Detailed explanation-4: -232 THE WESTERN HUMANITIES REVIEW by suggesting that Hamlet may have gone to some earlier Catholic school at Wittenberg to study philosophy.
Detailed explanation-5: -He casts Hamlet as the court jester. ‘ Howard explained that Trevor Nunn had attached great importance to Hamlet’s university education at Wittenberg. It was the Lutheran university and Hamlet would have returned to the Catholic society of Elsinore impregnated by the ‘new philosophy’, claimed Howard.