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The Internet Hamlet

edited by Jorn Barger, April 2002

based on a Danish legend from the Viking era, before 1200AD [etext] [history]
setting: Elsinore, Denmark [castle] [map] [map] [info]
early-edition etexts: 1603-Q1, 1604-Q2, 1623-F1 (ditto), enfolded-700k
modern-edition etexts: MIT, UVa, CMU, Gutenberg
scene-by-scene: Lycos
criticism: Hazlitt, Jungian, links
misc: BBS, links, links, links, glossary, glossary, grammar, Dumas-1848, Joyce/Ulysses

This edition is intended mainly as a demo of my design-theories, in particular the emphasis on heavy-but-inconspicuous hyperlinking:

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