A lmost everyone seems to know at least one thing about Hamlet’s Denmark: it is rotten. This famous sentiment is rivaled only by “to be or not to be” as source of popular allusions and parody. For the most part, this phrase—and language like it in the play—have been taken as purely metaphorical. Powerful people have been behaving badly, and “rot” seems to reflect a suitably disgusted attitude toward their malfeasance. Here, for example, is a conversation in which Hamlet, feigning madness, traverses rapidly through a constellation of possibilities. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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