Norway

Family: Norwegian court · Role: King of Norway · First appears: Hamlet · Act I, Scene II

Life events

• Claudius dispatches Cornelius and Voltemand to Norway to suppress Fortinbras’s military preparations.(Hamlet · Act I, Scene II · 📍 Norway)
  • With: Claudius Fortinbras Cornelius Voltemand
  • “And we here dispatch You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltemand, For bearers of this greeting to old Norway”
• Fortinbras abandons military action against the King and receives Norway’s commission to fight the Polack.(Hamlet · Act II, Scene II)
  • With: Fortinbras Claudius
  • “which he, in brief, obeys, Receives rebuke from Norway; and in fine, Makes vow before his uncle never more To give th’assay of arms against your Majesty. Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy, Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee, And his commission to employ those soldiers So levied as before, against the Polack”

Hamlet · Act I, Scene II

• younger kin: Fortinbras “we have here writ / To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras”

Hamlet · Act II, Scene II

• protégé: Fortinbras “Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy, Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee, And his commission to employ those soldiers”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Tragedies. Made with Rho MD.