Gertrude and Claudius / (Record no. 5034)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 99033436
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0375409084 (hbk)
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Transcribing agency NCL
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 813
Edition number 21
Item number UPD-G 2000 6904
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Updike, John.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Gertrude and Claudius /
Statement of responsibility, etc. by John Updike.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. A.A. Knopf,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2000.
263 ## - PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE
Projected publication date 0003
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 212 p. ;
Dimensions 21 cm.
520 1# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "John Updike's nineteenth novel tells the story of Claudius and Gertrude, King and Queen of Denmark, before the action of Shakespeare's Hamlet begins.
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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.
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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