Arms and the Curriculum

By STEVEN G. KELLMAN

In the end, Fortinbras, who leads his foreign army into Elsinore in time to take control of Denmark, honors Hamlet with a soldier's burial. Yet, more scholar than soldier, the melancholy Dane brought military disaster to his kingdom. Reluctant to leave the University of Wittenberg for the frivolous royal court, Hamlet was more adept at metaphysics...