While references are made in Hamlet to several other lands, including France, Germany, Norway, Poland, and England itself, all of the action in the play occurs in and around Elsinore Castle in Denmark. In Shakespeare’s day (and to this day), there was (and is) an Elsinore in Denmark and a castle in Elsinore, the Kronberg Castle, which houses a Shakespeare museum. Some scholars have speculated that Shakespeare himself had visited Elsinore before he wrote Hamlet, either in his pre-theater youth or as a member of a traveling troupe of actors. The text of the play, however,...
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