The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 9.1018  Thursday, 21 October 1998.

From:           Martin Jukovsky <
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Date:           Tuesday, 20 Oct 1998 11:38:16 -0400
Subject:        HAMLET Supernova

The following article appeared in the October 19 issue of The Boston
Globe:

Written in the stars: Astronomer says sentries guarding Hamlet's castle
awaited a ghost - and saw an epochal supernova

By David L. Chandler, Globe Staff, 10/19/98

It summarizes an article appearing in the current issue of Sky and
Telescope magazine in which physicist Donald Olson concludes that the
star discussed in the opening of HAMLET was a supernova spotted in 1572.

You can read the Globe article online at
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe/globehtml/292/Written_in_the_stars.shtml

If the article gets archived, you can still read it for a small fee.

Martin Jukovsky
Cambridge, Mass.

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