Was Hamlet, the melancholy Danish prince, really based on an Irish legend? Scholars believe that Shakespeare came up the idea for Hamlet after reading a 13th century Norse pseudo-history. But is it ...
Research argues that the story behind Hamlet can be traced to an eighth or ninth-century Irish tale that names a figure resembling Amlothi. Dr Lisa Collinson says her study found Irish references to ...
FRAILTY THY name is Irish, could be the new refrain for Shakespeare’s tragic prince of Denmark, if recent literary research is correct. Hamlet's name may come from a character in a medieval Irish ...
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