Gertrude, Queen of Denmark (Fictitious character)
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Name (Latin)
Gertrude, Queen of Denmark (Fictitious character)
Associated country
Denmark
Occupation
Queens
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
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Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Gertrude and Claudius, 2000:Dust jkt. ("... Updike tells the story of Gertrude and Claudius, King and Queen of Denmark, before the action of Shakespeare's Hamlet begins")
- Three caskets of interpretation, 2012:back cover (Gertrude)
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Eugène Delacroix, Hamlet and His Mother
Eugène Delacroix, Public domain
Wikipedia description:
In William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Gertrude is Hamlet's mother and Queen of Denmark. Her relationship with Hamlet is somewhat turbulent, since he resents her marrying her husband's brother Claudius after he murdered the king (young Hamlet's father, King Hamlet). Gertrude reveals no guilt in her marriage with Claudius after the recent murder of her husband, and Hamlet begins to show signs of jealousy towards Claudius. According to Hamlet, she scarcely mourned her husband's death before marrying Claudius. She is based on Gerutha (from Saxo Grammaticus' Amleth); her name may be influenced by Gertrude of Bavaria, who was Queen of Denmark in the late 12th century.
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