Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike

Gertrude and Claudius

John Updike

212 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction historical dark reflective slow-paced
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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 de...

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