‘Popped in between th’ election and my hopes’: Hamlet and Election Day
Election day is approaching, and of course, there weren’t any elections in Shakespeare’s time in Britain. Oh, but there were elections of a type in those days of yore, and in particular in Denmark, when a king died and there was no clear successor. In Hamlet, the old King Hamlet is murdered by his own brother, Claudius, at a time when the crown prince, Hamlet himself, is in Wittenburg, Germany studying philosophy. By the time he gets back to Denmark, his uncle, who murdered his father and adding insult to …
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