William Shakespeare
Hamlet: locations
Denmark
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- Elsinore Castle (Kronborg)Scene
The principal setting: the royal castle at Elsinore, including its battlements, halls, chambers, and court, where the Ghost appears and most of the tragedy unfolds. Shakespeare's Elsinore is associated with Kronborg Castle in Helsingør.
- A plain in DenmarkScene
An unlocated plain crossed by Hamlet and his companions, where they encounter a captain from Fortinbras's army marching toward Poland.
- Elsinore churchyardScene
The graveyard near Elsinore where the gravediggers work, Hamlet meditates over Yorick's skull, Ophelia is buried, and Hamlet struggles with Laertes.
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