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Sh got his story third or fourth hand, through several layers of historians, each of whom mangled it a little more, but apparantly there was a king's son who avenged his father's murder and then paid for it. Some versions of the story say that Laertes was actually a whole family of brothers who started a vendetta against the Hamlet figure, some that he escaped to England and married a princess there. It's sort of like Robin Hood: whatever historical facts there were have been buried under several layers of myth-making.

Posted by Hamlet on March 23, 1997 at 12:31:36
 In Reply to "Is there a historical Hamlet?" posted by Lewis Crow on March 23, 1997 at 04:45:06


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