Word: kronborg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Danish castle which William Shakespeare had in mind when he wrote Hamlet was Kronborg Castle, whose sombre walls and pinnacles frown across the narrow sound between Sweden and Denmark. A state property for centuries, the old place was a military barracks until ten years ago, when it became a marine museum. Last week a troupe from London's Old Vic company played the drama of the melancholy prince on the designated spot-at Kronborg Castle. Directed by Tyrone Guthrie, Laurence Olivier (The Green Bay Tree) took the name part opposite Vivien Leigh's Ophelia. Cadets of the Danish...
...decades had Hamlet been played at Kronborg Castle in Elsinore. The first and only other time was in 1916, during the Shakespeare Tercentenary...