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Why did Shakespeare choose to set Hamlet in Denmark? I can see why it would not be wise of him to set it in England, but why Denmark? Why not some other real or imagined country?
 
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Because it's based on a legend about a Danish prince as told in the Gesta Danorum, a history book, by Saxo Grammaticus.


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