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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 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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Gertrude and Claudius, John Updike
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2001
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- John Updike
- Verlag
- Ballantine Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2001
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 212
- ISBN10
- 0449006972
- ISBN13
- 9780449006979
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Klassiker, Mythen & Legenden, Amerikanische Literatur, Geschichten, Mittelalter, Literarische Fiktion, Mamas, Dänemark, Könige, Königinnen, Klassizismus
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2000
- Originaltitel
- Gertrude and Claudius
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- 3,55 von 5 Sternen
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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 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.”