King Claudius’ Statement Re: Cuts to Denmark’s Arts Budget

The play’s the thing we can’t continue subsidizing

Katie Burgess
Jane Austen’s Wastebasket

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Title page and frontispiece for Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Tragedy. As it is now acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. London, 1776
Image from Wikimedia Commons

My fellow Danes,

Many of my subjects have expressed discontent regarding the proposed cuts to our arts endowment. Look ye, I am not anti-art. No one loveth a good decorative horn or painted runestone more than I. But when God in His wisdom made me king…

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