Word: grammarian
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...real persona in the play. It sort of evolved from that point on. On the commuter train to Middleboro, I realized I could frame the whole story around the first person who historically recorded Hamlet’s story, a man by the name of Saxo the Grammarian. It was basically the same story, but with no depth, and the way the story ends is different. But Saxo’s story is remarkably the same in the way Horatio describes it, “Carnal, bloody and unnatural acts. Casual slaughters, accidental judgments.” I was reading...
...advisors, than anyone else. The play begins with Horatio wanting not only to tell Hamlet’s tale, but also to confess his own sins. It is here that Funke has incorporated a historical element in to the plot; Horatio tells his story to Saxo the Grammarian, the first writer to enter the real “Amleth” into the historical record through his book of Danish history...