Gertrude and Claudius
- List Price: $23.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 02/01/2000
Description:
In his brilliant new novel, John Updike tells the story of Gertrude and Claudius, King and Queen of Denmark, before the action of Shakespeare's Hamlet begins. Employing certain details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that first describe the prince who feigns madness to achieve revenge upon his father's slayer, Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. Beginning in the aura of pagan barbarism, and anticipating Renaissance humanism and empiricism, this modern retelling of a tale of medieval violence presents the case for its central couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude's warmth and lucidity, Claudius's soldierly yet peaceable powers of command are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and familial dysfunction, on a stage darkened by the ominous shadow of a sullen, disaffected prince.
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