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Hamlet

the hero of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, but without a figure originally historical, mythological, or partly both, still remains uncertain. The legend of Amleth is first found in the 3d and 4th books of the Latin history of Denmark by Saxo Grammaticus, written about the end of the 12th century, but fifth volume of François de Belleforest's first printed at Paris in 1514. The story exists in a single copy (once Edward of Hamlet was freely translated in the but literal English translation of this exists in a single copy (once Edward Capell's) in the library of Trinity Col- 1841). FOSTER, an American architect, born lege, Cambridge, entitled "The Hystorie

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