ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -With this in mind, Claudius says that he does not wish for Hamlet to return to school at Wittenberg (where he had been studying before his father’s death), as Hamlet has asked to do.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet wishes to follow his friend Horatio to Wittenberg. Claudius, however, intends and pleads otherwise: For your intent In going back to school in Wittenberg, It is most retrograde to our desire, And we beseech you bend you to remain Here in the cheer of our eye, Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son. (1.2.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -The University of Wittenberg was established in 1502–so the real Hamlet (if there was one) could not in fact have gone there, since the story goes back to the early medieval period.

Detailed explanation-5: -A review of Seattle Shakespeare Company’s overstuffed romp “Wittenberg, ” which is about Hamlet’s years at college-where he suffers on the tennis court and debates philosophies with John Faustus and Martin Luther.