Six Media In Search Of A Dane

May, 1960

Seruant to His Majesty.TimePeopleBrooding, sometimes psychotic Prince ("Melancholy Dane") Hamlet of Denmark (see Foreign News), still mourning the mysterious, untimely death of his father (Time, Sept. 17, 1600), suddenly turned historic, treasure-filled Elsinore Castle (see Art) into a rapier-thrusting, poison-quaffing blood bath (see Sport). Following a spirited conversation with his late father, during which he learned that his power-hungry, opportunist uncle, King Claudius, had &quo...

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