Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Meredith Evans
• Marcie Frank
• Jonathan Goldberg
• Karen Newman

Titel

Cities of the Stranger

Ist Teil von

• This Distracted Globe: Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature, 2016, p.142

Ort / Verlag

Fordham University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• What’s rotten in Denmark, so far as Claudius is concerned, is Hamlet. But Claudius is in luck, for the territory that Hamlet experiences as a claustrophobic “prison” is no such thing. It is, in fact, an island—or at least more of an island than not. Relative to Norway and Sweden, fourteenth-century Denmark was densely populated and relatively urbane; its sixty-odd towns (compared to Norway’s mere dozen) were coastal and easily accessible by sea. However, this also made Denmark vulnerable to contagion: to the plague of Black Death, most immediately, but also to the mounting political pressures of its rivaling