Elsinore Revisited

This masterfully-crafted scholarly work of Vedi challenges the general assumption that William Shakespeare was the sole author of "Hamlet". It is maintained that the plot line and the characters were drawn up by someone else. This someone is thought to have been a person of high rank, a feudal prince, in the Elizabethan society. Readers will walk in the footsteps of the Queen's envoys in Elsinore Revisited to see if they can discover how and why the site of Elsinore entered into the play. They will meet men like Ramelius alias Polonius, but also Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who all entered the portrait gallery of famous characters in world literature. Pieces of circumstantial evidences, according to Vedi lead to Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and Lord Derby, married to one of de Vere's daughters might have been the sole author or co-authors of the play "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark". It is the intention of Elsinore Revisited to test the validity of that theory by analysis of plot and characters, the social perspective of "Hamlet" as well as historical aspects of the Danish and English royal courts. In that respect site specific knowledge about Elsinore is crucial. Clearly, the author himself is open to future discussions of this controversial theory through a renewed analysis of the literary style, linguistic markers, sociolinguistic traits, plot and characters and dramatic structure of "Hamlet" and other works linked to the same author Clearly, the author himself is not a doubter. With renewed readings of primary and secondary resources and with discovery of an hitherto overlooked or neglected primary source, Vedi came with a conclusion based on facts alone, not just from gut feeling.