Denmark & Succession

Question 1

Philip Edwards, on Denmark and Hamlet

Answer 1

“ Hamlet is about Denmark as well as its prints. How Denmark fares as a society is in our minds all the time. “

Question 2

Philip Edwards, on Denmark’s Monarchy

Answer 2

“ Shakespeare plays off [Denmark’s] elective monarchy against his Elizabethan audiences’s deep emotional commitment to primogeniture and the right of a son to inherit… For the audience, the system is a legalism which runs counter to their instinctive sense of rightness. “

Question 3

J W Lever:

Answer 3

“the fundamental flaw is the world they inhabit: in the political state”