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   From: odysseus1479-at@yahoo-dot.ca   
      
   nystulc@cs.com wrote:   
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   > Shakespear's "Hamlet" had a suggestive resemblence to previously   
   > written stories about Hamlet.  It also has a suggestive resemblance to   
   > many real life events.  That alone, is not sufficient to make it an   
   > allegory.   
      
   OTOH Robert Gurik's _Hamlet, Prince du Québec_ is certainly an   
   allegory, of Québec politics in the 'sixties: all the characters have   
   definite topical references.   
      
   Hamlet - Québec   
   The Ghost - De Gaulle   
   Claudius - L'anglophonie   
   Gertrude - L'église   
   Horatio - Levesque   
   Polonius - Pearson   
   Laertes - Trudeau   
   Ophelia - Lesage   
   Rosencrantz & Guildenstern - Marchand & Pelletier   
      
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