FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Elsinore, Denmark
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Rome, Italy
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Ontario, Canada
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London, England
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Detailed explanation-1: -Elsinore or Helsingør (Danish: Helsingør) is a city of just under 50, 000 residents, in the north eastern corner of the island of Zealand in Denmark. It is the closest city to Sweden, with frequent ferry connections to its twin city across the strait; Helsingborg.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-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: -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-5: -The setting of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is the town of Elsinore, which is also the name of the castle referenced in Hamlet.