Gertrude And Claudius
by John Updike
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- First Printing 02/08/2000, Near Mint with Near Mint dj. Great copy./Near Mint
- ISBN 10
- 0375409084
- ISBN 13
- 9780375409080
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Hamlet begins. Employing the nomenclature and 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. A dark-eyed dreamer with a taste for foreign adventure, he for decades has sought to quell his love for Gertrude, and at last returns to an Elsinore whose prince is generally elsewhere. Gaps and inconsistencies within the immortal play are to an extent filled and explained in this prequel; the figure of Polonius, especially, takes on a larger significance. Beginning in the aura of pagan barbarism, and anticipating Renaissance humanism and empiricism, this modern retelling of a medieval t
Synopsis
Gertrude and Claudius is a novel by John Updike. It uses the known sources of Shakespeare's Hamlet to tell a story that draws on a rather straightforward revenge tale in the medieval Denmark depicted by Saxo Grammaticus in his twelfth-century Historiae Danicae, but incorporates extra plot elements added by François de Belleforest in his Histoires tragiques, published in 1576.
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- Title
- Gertrude And Claudius
- Author
- John Updike
- Book Condition
- Used - First Printing 02/08/2000, Near Mint with Near Mint dj. Great copy.
- Jacket Condition
- Near Mint
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Knopf, First Edition, First Printing 02/08/2000,
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375409084
- ISBN 13
- 9780375409080
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (2000)
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology;
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