Sources of Hamlet
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Sources of Hamlet
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The sources of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, a tragedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601, trace back as far as pre-13th century. The generic "hero-as-fool" story is so old and is expressed in the literature of so many cultures that scholars have hypothesized that it may be Indo-European in origin. A Scandinavian version of the story of Hamlet was put into writing around 1200 AD by Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus in his work Gesta Danorum. It is from this w
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Origin of the sources of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sources_of_Hamlet
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2008-01-01T22:32:24Z
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2024-08-27T06:58:11Z
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