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eoghan500
eoghan500
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What does  " local colour" mean in Hamlet?

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Posted by eoghan500 on Wednesday October 28, 2009 at 9:48 AM and tagged with hamlet.

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  1. wordman306
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    High School - 12th Grade

    Since the play was set in Denmark, Shakespeare's choice of Wittenburg for Hamlet's university was appropriate.  Wittenburg was a university favored by Danish students. 

    Additionally, WS added a bit of English "local colour" in his discussion of "aerie of children" with Horatio.  English theatre was being overrun by child actors at the turn of the seventeenth century, putting many of Shakespeare's contemporaries out of work.

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    Posted by wordman306 on Wednesday October 28, 2009 at 3:13 PM