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<\/center><\/p>\nNow, the castle itself, in all honesty, has very little to do with Shakespeare. First of all, Hamlet<\/em> is fictional, so there\u2019s no sense of this is where this happened or anything of the like. Also, Shakespeare never visited Denmark, so you can\u2019t even say that this is the room where Shakespeare envisioned a certain scene or other. What\u2019s more, the castle itself was based on a stronghold built in the 1420\u2019s, and renovated into a Renaissance castle in the late 16th century. So, it wouldn\u2019t even have existed during Hamlet\u2019s time.<\/p>\n None of this matters, of course, when you visit the castle. Hamlet is real and this is where the events took place. You can see the bedchambers, the banquet tables, and the giant tapestries hanging in the hallways. This most excellent canopy hangs in my lady\u2019s chamber, and you can breathe in the history, even if it never actually happened.<\/p>\n Shakespeare is celebrated in the castle quite a bit. There are performances of Hamlet<\/em> given regularly at the castle, and there is even an exhibition of all of the various actors who have played Hamlet over the years. There is also an excellent gift shop where you can get the standard Shakespeare merchandise, but with an extra note of authenticity. Yes, it\u2019s a mock-quill pen, but it\u2019s from Elsinore<\/em>. I say this without irony; I picked up an excellent coffee mug.<\/p>\n No doubt, when I look back on this trip, it will be the castle that stands out as the centerpiece of the experience. Next, we shall be welcomed back to Denmark as we visit Copenhagen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I went to Kronborg Castle in Helsingor, the real-life inspiration for Shakespeare\u2019s Elsinore. Now, the castle itself, in all honesty, has very little to do with Shakespeare. First of all, Hamlet is fictional, so there\u2019s no sense of this is where this happened or anything of the like. Also, Shakespeare never visited Denmark, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,91,4,6,3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise","category-hamlet","category-history","category-international","category-shakespeare","category-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5863,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions\/5863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/kinside.JPG\")
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