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We’ve Been Completely Missing The Message Hidden In ‘Hamlet’, Says Scholar

THEATRE Posted: January 3, 2017 5:33 am

Gary Taylor, editor of The New Oxford Shakespeare and professor at Florida State, thinks that the figure of Fortinbras, the Norwegian king and deus ex machina who takes over Denmark after Hamlet has killed what’s left of the Danish royal family, is meant to be a flattering allusion to James I coming from Scotland to take the English throne.

THEATRE Published: 01.02.17

Read the story in The Times (UK) Published: 01.02.17

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