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John Updike - Gertrude and Claudius

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“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. . . . 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 tur
 
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Hamlet: the Prequel

Date of Review:  May 26, 2000
Review: To Updike or not to Updike.

That is the question some readers will ponder as they consider the prolific author?s nineteenth novel, Gertrude and Claudius, a densely-worded tale of the events leading up to Hamlet.

To those indecisive...
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  5.0

by: Grouch
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Sweet prince? Good night!

Date of Review:  Jun 22, 2000
Review: Sweet prince or bad seed? That is the question.

And in his newest novel, John Updike asks whether it is nobler to blame Hamlet's mother for the family tragedy that unravels the dysfunctional Danish royals ... or to take arms against the...
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Recommended to buy: Yes

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Creative prequel to Hamlet
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OK, so he's not such a sweet prince
 

IS something rotten in Denmark??

Date of Review:  Mar 21, 2000
Review: John Updike's new novel presents a new way to look at "Hamlet". Just as Shakespeare drew from historical sources as the basis for his portrait of murder, madness, and revenge, Updike draws on Hamlet, and on some of Shakespeare's own sources, to...
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Authors John Updike
Fiction Genre Biography & Autobiography
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  Salon: "Given the novelist's exhaustive mappings of the perils of concupiscence, he is the perfect writer to riff on Shakespeare's tragedy, which he manages to do here without usurping the great play's rightful primacy....Updike dives into their affair with alacrity, eliciting both the sadness and the elation the lovers feel at betraying their family allegiances in order to honor one of the spirit....In taking the action of the play beyond its sullen hero's point of view, Updike gives us a drama that, with its machinations of power and its sexual tug of wars, resembles OTHELLO more than it does HAMLET. In the end, as in OTHELLO (as well as in most Updikean dramas), those who confuse the loins with the spirit get a whopping comeuppance."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books (July 01, 2001)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.45 lbs.
ISBN: 9780449006979
 
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