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Setting
Kronburg Castle, Denmark
409 ce
Romans abandon the British
600-800
Germanic Tribes and Viking groups invade
What did the germanic tribes bring
Anglo-Saxon language and Beowolf
1200
Saxo Grammaticus writes down the 16 volume history of the Danes
Saxo Grammaticus
Historian/Philosopher
Volumes 3 and 4 of “The History of the Danes”
The story of Amleth
1601
Hamlet was debuted by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men
Richard Burrbage
Famous actor who played Hamlet in the debut
1646-1660
Oliver Cromwell’s Puritan government’s reign
1660
Stuart Restoration of the monarchy
Conceit
Elaborate Metaphor
Soliloquy
Speech made by a character that is only heard by that character/the audience
Monologe
Long speech made by one singular character
Shakespeare is written in __ (language)
Early modern English
Shakespeare wrote in __ (meter and foot)
iambic pentameter
iambic pentameter
stressed unstressed x5
heroic couplet
two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter
Note 
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