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  2. Gertrude (Hamlet) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. King Claudius - Wikipedia

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    King Claudius is a fictional character and the main antagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. He is the brother to King Hamlet, second husband to Gertrude and uncle and later stepfather to Prince Hamlet. He obtained the throne of Denmark by murdering his brother with

  4. Characters in Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    What follows is an overview of the main characters in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, followed by a list and summary of the minor characters from the play. [1] Three different early versions of the play survive: known as the First Quarto ("Q1"), Second Quarto ("Q2"), and First Folio ("F1"), each has lines—and even scenes—missing in the others, and some character names vary.

  5. Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    By this account, Gertrude's worst crime is of pragmatically marrying her brother-in-law in order to avoid a power vacuum. This is borne out by the fact that King Hamlet's ghost tells Hamlet to leave Gertrude out of Hamlet's revenge, to leave her to heaven, an arbitrary mercy to grant to a conspirator to murder. [139] [140] [141]

  6. Hamlet (1996 film) - Wikipedia

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    Prince Hamlet of Denmark is the son of the recently deceased King Hamlet and nephew of King Claudius, his father's brother and successor.Claudius hastily married King Hamlet's widow Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, and took the throne for himself.

  7. Gertrude and Claudius - Wikipedia

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    Gertrude and Claudius is a novel by John Updike. It uses the known sources of William Shakespeare 's Hamlet to tell a story that draws on a rather straightforward revenge tale in medieval Denmark, as depicted by Saxo Grammaticus in his twelfth-century Historiae Danicae .

  8. In 1914, Newark's Gertrude Dorsey Brown sued an ice cream ...

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    In 1914, Newark author Gertrude Dorsey Brown sued an ice cream parlor when it tried to charge her and her friend double because they were Black. In 1914, Newark author Gertrude Dorsey Brown sued ...

  9. Hamlet (Thomas) - Wikipedia

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    The orchestra begins Hamlet's Theme again, and Gertrude asks whether Hamlet seeks the young and beautiful Ophélie, but Hamlet responds that youth and beauty will vanish in a single day. When the orchestra has finished playing Hamlet's Theme, Claudius suggests that Hamlet may wish to travel abroad, to France and Italy, but Hamlet responds he'd ...