Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike

Gertrude and Claudius

John Updike

224 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction historical dark reflective slow-paced
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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 pl...

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