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Gertrude and Claudius

Gertrude and Claudius

Updike, John

Paperback

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0449006972
ISBN13: 9780449006979
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Jul 3 2001
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Gertrude and Claudius are the villains of Hamlet: he the killer of Hamlet's father and usurper of the Danish throne; she his lusty consort, who marries Claudius before her late husband's body is cold. But in this imaginative prequel to the play, John Updike makes a case for the royal couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude and Claudius are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and family dysfunction, on a stage darkened by the ominous shadow of a sullen, erratic, disaffected prince. I hoped to keep the texture light, Updike said of this novel, to move from the mists of Scandinavian legend into the daylight atmosphere of the Globe. I sought to narrate the romance that preceded the tragedy.

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