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Gertrude and Claudius
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375409084
ISBN-13
9780375409080
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1586486
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gertrude and Claudius
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Literary, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-033436
Reviews
"A LIVING, POWERFULLY PHYSICAL WORK . . . UPDIKE IS A SUPERBLY SKILLFUL WRITER." --The Wall Street Journal "WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS UPDIKE! Our own king of erudition has gone back to the Hamlet story to imagine its inception: its offstage pre-story, when Claudius fell in love with his brother's queen and that first dastardly deed in the garden was set in motion. Wickedly replete with allusions, weaving the history of ideas with the lustier possibilities of adulterous coupling, Gertrude and Claudius is an intelligent little novel of whimsy. . . . There is something delightful about following Updike down this path, seeing his sentiments and sympathies unfold." --The Boston Globe "WITTY . . . FRESH AND MOVING . . . Engrossing enough on its own terms to stand independently of Shakespeare's play." --Time "[UPDIKE] HAS MANAGED TO CREATE IN GERTRUDE A GENUINELY COMPELLING CHARACTER, a woman who is, by turns, vulnerable and outspoken, daring and naïve. . . . One of his most sympathetic and persuasive female characters." --The New York Times From the Trade Paperback edition., "Shakespeare's plays have had many offshoots. Gertrude and Claudius , though, stands in a class of its own: a superlative homage from one imaginative veteran to another." -The Sunday Times (London) "[A] pearl of a book . . . a game for real stakes . . . Updike has used Shakespeare to write a free-standing, pleasurable, and wonderfully dexterous novel about three figures in complex interplay." -The New York Times Book Review "A living, powerfully physical work . . . Updike is a superbly skillful writer." -The Wall Street Journal From the Trade Paperback edition., "Shakespeare's plays have had many offshoots. Gertrude and Claudius , though, stands in a class of its own: a superlative homage from one imaginative veteran to another." --The Sunday Times (London) "[A] pearl of a book . . . a game for real stakes . . . Updike has used Shakespeare to write a free-standing, pleasurable, and wonderfully dexterous novel about three figures in complex interplay." --The New York Times Book Review "A living, powerfully physical work . . . Updike is a superbly skillful writer." --The Wall Street Journal From the Trade Paperback edition., "Shakespeare's plays have had many offshoots. Gertrude and Claudius , though, stands in a class of its own: a superlative homage from one imaginative veteran to another." -The Sunday Times (London) "[A] pearl of a book . . . a game for real stakes . . . Updike has used Shakespeare to write a free-standing, pleasurable, and wonderfully dexterous novel about three figures in complex interplay." -The New York Times Book Review "A living, powerfully physical work . . . Updike is a superbly skillful writer." -The Wall Street Journal From the Trade Paperback edition., "A LIVING, POWERFULLY PHYSICAL WORK . . . UPDIKE IS A SUPERBLY SKILLFUL WRITER." --The Wall Street Journal "WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS UPDIKE! Our own king of erudition has gone back to the Hamlet story to imagine its inception: its offstage pre-story, when Claudius fell in love with his brother's queen and that first dastardly deed in the garden was set in motion. Wickedly replete with allusions, weaving the history of ideas with the lustier possibilities of adulterous coupling, Gertrude and Claudius is an intelligent little novel of whimsy. . . . There is something delightful about following Updike down this path, seeing his sentiments and sympathies unfold." --The Boston Globe "WITTY . . . FRESH AND MOVING . . . Engrossing enough on its own terms to stand independently of Shakespeare's play." --Time "[UPDIKE] HAS MANAGED TO CREATE IN GERTRUDE A GENUINELY COMPELLING CHARACTER, a woman who is, by turns, vulnerable and outspoken, daring and naïve. . . . One of his most sympathetic and persuasive female characters." --The New York Times
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
John Updikes's nineteenth novel tells the story of Claudius and Gertrude, King and Queen of Denmark, before the action of Shakespeare's 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 tale presents the case for its royal couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude and Claudius 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.
LC Classification Number
PS3571.P4G47 2000
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