""To be, or not to be:" one evening in Copenhagen "" Copenhagen by LysDor

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<font color=#FFFFFF size=1>(Act III, scene 1 from Hamlet, Prince of denmark by W. Shakespear 1564–1616)</font>
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The answer is Yes, I did stay one evening and had a good time.

This is strange, everytime I've been in Denmark it has been late evening or night time. I don't do it on purpose but it seem that I manage somehow to avoid visiting the country daytime.
My faith? Or my destiny to get to know it in the darkness.
That's why that sublime <i>Hamlet, Prince of Denmark</i> play inspired me.
I have read it at school as anyone else and also seen its opera version a couple of years ago here in Finland at the Savonlinna's Opera festival.

All pictures here are from my latest car-trip to Belgium just passing through Denmark but stopping on the way back to Copenhagen for one evening!</font>

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<font color=#CC0000 size=4><b>THE TRAGEDY of “Hamlet”</b></font>

<font color=#CC0000 size=2>It's the most renowned of English dramas, based on a legend found in the “History of the Danes,” written by <b>Saxo Grammaticus</b> about 1200. It came to England through the French, and was already on the stage in a version now lost, before Shakespeare took it up. The earliest edition of the play was printed in a corrupt form in 1603.

The main situation of the tragedy goes back to the prose tale. There we have a king murdered by his brother, who had previously seduced and has now married the queen; and the son of the king, aiming at revenge, finally achieving it, and using the device of pretended madness to protect himself in the meantime. The prototype of Polonius is killed while eavesdropping, but his character bears little resemblance to Shakespeare’s Lord Chamberlain; Ophelia and Horatio are merely hinted at; while Laertes, Fortinbras, and several of the minor characters, such as the grave-diggers and Osric, are altogether absent. The original Hamlet goes to England without interruption from pirates, witnesses the death of his two companions, returns and kills not only the king, but all his courtiers, goes to England again and marries two wives, one of whom betrays him to his death.

Other elements of the tragedy that are probably not due to Shakespeare’s invention have been gathered from a study of contemporary “tragedies of revenge.” How many of such additions were made by Shakespeare, how many by the author of the lost play, cannot be decided. But for those things which have raised “Hamlet” to its preeminent position in the history of literature,—the magnificence of the poetry, the amazing truth and subtlety of the psychology, and the intensity of the tragic emotion, it is not hard to assign the credit.</font>

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Last visit to Copenhagen: Nov 2001
Intro Updated May 27, 2003
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TheView Mar 18, 2006 at 2:37 AM

Yes but only the angry ones ;-)))
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grayfo Dec 7, 2004 at 3:21 AM

Excellent photos, you have really captured the flavour of Copenhagen.
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HORSCHECK Mar 16, 2004 at 1:19 PM

Nice page with brilliant photos .... I am going to visit Copenhagen on saturday .... :o)
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dsantosh Mar 10, 2004 at 10:45 PM

Your pages are classic..The way you do the presentation with the computer is terrifica.Congrats.
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acemj Apr 11, 2002 at 5:56 AM

Your camera does great at night!
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jenniferchin Mar 14, 2002 at 1:38 AM

Great page !! So much tips !!!
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Kodi01 Mar 8, 2002 at 5:11 AM

Excellent page!
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Irato Feb 5, 2002 at 5:24 AM

One evening, but what an evening! Thanks
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kristineb Feb 5, 2002 at 4:47 AM

Very funky `by-nite` perspective!
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ersal Jan 15, 2002 at 6:32 AM

Excellent Page!