Free audio books to download to mp3 players Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
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Gertrude and Claudius. John Updike
Gertrude-and-Claudius.pdf
ISBN: 9780449006979 | 224 pages | 6 Mb
- Gertrude and Claudius
- John Updike
- Page: 224
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9780449006979
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Free audio books to download to mp3 players Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
Overview
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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