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Actually, that's sort of an interesting thought experiment.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2000/aug/23/artsfeatures.e...

It's been noted that in many parts of Africa, the reaction to Hamlet's reaction to his uncle would be: A man dies, so his brother marries the widow -- that's the good and proper thing to do!



Classic treatment of this, and other ways in which Hamlet doesn't "translate" to another culture, is Bohannan's "Shakespeare in the Bush" (http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/picks-from-the-past/12476/s...).


Marrying your brother's widow was the good and proper thing to do in England (or Denmark for that matter). That's not what makes Claudius the bad guy.




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