Gertrude and Claudius - Hardcover

Updike, John

 
9780375409080: Gertrude and Claudius
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375409084 ISBN 13: 9780375409080
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Set in the Denmark of Shakespeare's Hamlet before the action in the play, this novel of Hamlet's parents speculates on the forces that led Gertrude into a middleaged affair with her husband's younger brother.

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John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. He is the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal.

Aus dem Klappentext

'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 t

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Verlag
Alfred A. Knopf
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0375409084
ISBN 13 
9780375409080
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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