Saxo Grammaticus
SAXO GRAMMATICUS (c. 1150–after 1216) was a Danish historian whose writings (Gesta Danorum) constitute one of the few important early sources on Germanic mythology and religion...
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In the following essay, Ormsby-Lennon explores the question of whether Shakespeare read Saxo's account of Hamlet directly or in an edited and translated version made by Remigio Nannini, a sixte...
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In the following essay, Srigley analyzes Hamlet's melancholy in light of Saxo's description of his powers of divination.
For over two hundred years the nature and extent of Hamlet�...
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In the following essay, Pandit explores how Shakespeare's characterization of Hamlet builds upon his memory of various sources, including Saxo's, as well as upon his audience's fa...
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In the following essay, Kuhn reviews the wide range of papers submitted to the international Saxo conference held in Bologna, Italy, in September 1990 and collected in Saxo Grammaticus: Tra storiograf...
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Saxo Grammaticus
Critical Essay by Theresa Suriano Ormsby-Lennon
