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Darkness and Enlightenment
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
November 23, 2001| Author:
Carolyn See
| Copyright 2001 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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THE ROYAL PHYSICIAN'S VISIT
A Novel
By Per Olov Enquist
Translated from the Swedish by Tiina Nunnally
Overlook. 384 pp. $26.95In the 1760s, the tiny country of Denmark
was ruled by a child king who was mad. Young King Christian gibbered,
hallucinated and knocked the heads off statues, but he had been
mistreated for so long by so many knaves and scoundrels that his
insanity might not have been his fault. (And as Per Olov Enquist
elegantly suggests in "The Royal Physi...
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; Byline: Frank Wilson Something may have been rotten in the state of Denmark in Hamlet's day, but Shakespeare's play seems like an episode of Ozzie and Harriet compared with the goings-on at the Danish court during the reign of Christian VII in the 18th century. Take Christian's upbringing, which
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