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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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The Norse Hamlet

The Norse Hamlet

De Belleforest, Francois
Filipski, Soren
Filipski, Soren

Paperback

Series: Sources of Shakespeare, Book 1

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0615878911
ISBN13: 9780615878911
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 31 2013
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Shakespeare's Hamlet is not a wholly original story, but is the greatest retelling of the legend of Amleth, recorded by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus four centuries before Shakespeare. Saxo's tale is a highly entertaining adventure in its own right and provides insights into the creative processes by which the old, pagan legend evolved to strike fire in the Christian age of Elizabethan theater. This accurate new translation of The Revenge of Amleth by S ren Filipski gives a complete selection of the Amleth legend, including Amleth's often-omitted adventures in Britain. Filipski also provides an historical introduction that traces Saxo's influence on Shakespeare's contemporaries, with exhaustive citations of every Elizabethan reference to earlier versions of Hamlet. Also included is the full text of François de Belleforest's Hystorie of Hamblet, an influential pre-Shakespearean adaptation of the same story.

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