16/01/2018
On this day in 1816, Shakespeare's "Hamlet" was performed for the first time at the castle of Kronborg in Helsingør (Elsinore, Denmark) where it is set...
"Frailty, thy name is woman!—
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father’s body,
Like Niobe, all tears. Why she, even she—
O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason
Would have mourned longer!—married with my uncle,
My father’s brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules."
--Hamlet from "Hamlet" (Act 1, Scene 2)