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The
name is derived from Hals meaning "narrow strait"
and it referred to the narrow passage between what is now Elsinore
and Helsingborg. The Rerum Danicarum Historica (1631)
claims that the history of Elsinore can be traced back to 70 BC,
but this information is highly dubious. The people were mentioned,
as Helsinger, for the first time in King Valdemar the
Victorious's book from 1231, but they should not be confused with
the Helsings of Hälsingland in Sweden. Prior to the Middle Ages
it was just a marketplace where people sold goods, including
women. About 1200 AD the first church, Sct Olai Church, was built.
A number of convents once surrounded the church, but now all that
remains is the church building, today the cathedral of the Diocese
of Elsinore. Elsinore
as we know it today was founded in the 1420s by the Danish king
Eric of Pomerania. He established the Sound Toll in 1429 and built
the castle 'Krogen', which was made bigger in the 1580s and named
Kronborg. The oldest parts of the cathedral of Elsinore date back
to the 1200s and tell us that the fishermen's village, as Elsinore
was then, was a town of a certain importance. At least, there have
always been some form of ferryboats crossing between Elsinore and
Helsingborg. Kronborg
Castle is a main tourist attraction. Hamlet has been
performed a number of times in its courtyard. The
Swedish city of Helsingborg lies a short distance across the Øresund
from Elsinore. European route E55 traverses the two cities;
ferries connect the two ends *
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and one of his best-known and
most oft-quoted plays. It was written at an uncertain date between
1600 and the summer of 1602. Hamlet
may be the most frequently produced work in almost every western
country, and it is considered a crucial test for mature actors.
Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy (Act Three,
Scene One), the most popular passage in the play, is so well known
that it has become a stumbling-block for many modern actors. Hamlet
is one of the world's most famous literary works, and has been
translated into every major living language. By
the
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