Bismarck was to break into the Atlantic Ocean and raid Allied shipping from North America to Great Britain. The two ships were detected several times off Scandinavia, in alphabetical order, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, Denmark taking a front row seat in the world of literature and introspective thought through their vaunted prince Hamlet, the star and protagonist of William Shakespeare’s 1600 tragedy which is named for him, Hamlet, he serving paradoxically, iconically, and ironically as Prince of Denmark, nephew to the upsetting, unfettering, and usurping Claudius, and son of King Hamlet, the previous King of Denmark, where, at the beginning of the play, he struggles with whether, and how, to avenge the murder of his father, and struggles with his own vanity, manity, and sanity al
