Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK Is an expression that IS 13 tret THIS encountered in the most matter of fact speech where it lils is desired to indicate suspicion which a certain situation arouses against the people involved the words are over three hundred years standing their author being that master of figure and rhetoric the bard of avon it Is in hamlets hamlet written in that we find the original use of the phrase Tb theres eres some lhing rotten in th the state of denmark it occurs in the fifth scene of the first farst act when the ghost appears beckoning to hamlet who against the entreaties of his companions horatio and marcellus goes off with it IL in comme commenting riling on t the h e strange proc proceed eed ings of the night Sl arcellus says ti it horatio to what issue will this come something Is rot the state of Den denmark markl 1 copyright |