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Hamlet

legendary prince of Denmark

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portrayal in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”

  • Hamlet (1996)
    In Hamlet: Sources

    …of the story of Prince Hamlet was derived from several sources, notably from Books III and IV of Saxo Grammaticus’s 12th-century Gesta Danorum (“The Deeds of the Danes”; Eng. trans. The History of the Danes or The Danish History) and from volume 5 (1570) of Histoires tragiques, a free translation…

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