Re: Propositioning Priyadarsi

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 59532
Date: 2008-07-11

At 7:07:36 PM on Thursday, July 10, 2008,
david_russell_watson wrote:

> In English there is the expression "There's something
> rotten in the state of Denmark".

> Would anybody happen to know what the history or
> explanation of this odd expression is?

It's spoken by Marcellus in Act I, Scene 4 of 'Hamlet'.

Brian

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