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Topic: Gertrude (Hamlet)

	Gertrude (Hamlet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She and Hamlet have a complex and somewhat dysfunctional relationship, as there is a question as to whether or not she was involved in Hamlet's father's death.
		Kenneth Branagh) believe that there is evidence of a sexual relationship between Gertrude and Hamlet, a view popularised by Freud's famous notion of the Oedipus complex.
		Gertrude also appears as a character in Howard Brenton's Gertrude—The Cry, which uses some of the characters from Hamlet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gertrude_(Hamlet) (165 words)

	Hamlet Haven: Ophelia
		Gertrude’s description of Ophelia as “mermaidlike” (4.7.176) in the drowning report “evokes a whole tradition from Homer’s sirens to mermaid references in Shakespeare’s own time” because sirens and mermaids were conflated (and “interchangeable”) by the Elizabethan period (260-61).
		Hamlet discovers "a verbal and theatrical metalanguage with which to construct and contain the experience of insanity" (196), but Ophelia "does not have the same means for elaborating a delirium as a man" (197).
		While Gertrude properly responds to his chastising by transferring her allegiance from Claudius to Hamlet, and in a sense recovering from her wombsickness, it is too late to prevent the destruction of the throne’s inhabitants.
	www.hamlethaven.com /ophelia.html (6369 words)

	Shakespeare's Gertrude: An Analysis of Hamlet's Mother, Queen Gertrude
		Gertrude is, more so than any other character in the play, the antithesis of her son, Hamlet.
		Gertrude is also a very sexual being, and it is her sexuality that turns Hamlet so violently against her.
		If Gertrude were an adulteress, she would have been almost certainly been involved in Claudius' plot of murder, and therefore she would be the play's villainess and not its child-like victim.
	www.shakespeare-online.com /playanalysis/gertrudechar.html (740 words)

	Enjoying "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
		Hamlet refers (V.ii) to "the election", i.e., the choosing of a new king by a vote of a small number of warlords (as in Macbeth).
		Hamlet replies, "O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." The friends continue to play on the idea that Hamlet's ambitious are being thwarted, sharing some contemporary platitudes about the vanity of earthly ambitions.
		Hamlet tells the queen not to dismiss what he has said about her as the result of madness, and says how ironic it is that virtue (his blunt talk to his mother) has to ask pardon for its bad manners.
	www.pathguy.com /hamlet.htm (17932 words)

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		HAMLET Ay, or any show that you'll show him: be not you ashamed to show, he'll not shame to tell you what it means.
		HAMLET A murderer and a villain; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket!
		HAMLET They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance in that.
	www.fortunecity.com /wembley/pride/795/andrew/hamlet3.txt (10179 words)

	Hamlet & Gertrude: The Agony of Love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Once the Ghost leaves, Hamlet further chastises her for her sin with Claudius and tells her not to return to the “enseamed bed” which she shares with him, as well as telling her that his madness is an act rather than true insanity (92).
		Hamlet responds to the Ghost with a mixture of respect, deference, and fear, desiring to please him and afraid to fail him.
		Gertrude’s death foreshadowing always comes from her own mouth, which is also the way in which she dies in the final scene after drinking the poisoned wine.
	www.andybox.com /hamlet.htm (5363 words)

	Hamlet (1990/I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Quotes: Hamlet: To be, or not to be, that is the question.
		Hamlet was directed by Franco Zefferelli who did Romeo and Juliet 22 years earlier.
		"To be or not to be." In the graveyard, Hamlet contemplates the skull of a court jester he knew as a child.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0099726 (422 words)

	Drama: Hamlet
		HAMLET The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels; And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge.
		HAMLET Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a blessing: but not as your daughter may conceive.
		HAMLET O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
	drama.eserver.org /plays/renaissance/shakespeare/tragedies/hamlet.txt (11083 words)

	HAMLET OPERA
		My intention is to create a Hamlet with the highest impact to contemporary audiences and yet to maintain a clear respect for Shakespeare’s genius.
		Hamlet will confront his fellow characters on various rides, including a merry-go-round, a house of horrors and a house of mirrors!
		For example Ophelia’s mad scene (Valentine’s Day) is combined with Hamlet’s fantastical tales of pirate ships and stealing off Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to have their heads cut off, along with Laertes storming the castle demanding justice for his fathers death.
	silvertone.princeton.edu /~carson/hamlet.html (929 words)

	Gertrude Essay (from Hamlet)
		In Hamlet, almost nothing is as it appears to be, and most of the plot progression in the play relies on that simple idea.
		Hamlet does not kill Claudius when he is presented with the perfect opportunity because he believes that Claudius is in prayer (although he is actually as unrepentant as ever).
		What Hamlet thinks is just a simple swordfight turns out to be a climactic murder plot.
	www.radessays.com /link.php?site=re&aff=r2c2&dest=viewpaper.php?request=37343 (233 words)

	Skinhead Hamlet
		GERTRUDE: (Looking out the window) There is a willow grows aslant the brook.
		HAMLET: I got this feeling I'm going to cop it, Horatio, and you know, I couldn't give a flying fuck.
		(HAMLET dies.) HORATIO: Fuck: that was no ordinary wanker, you know.
	www.sa.rochester.edu /drama/skinhead.html (221 words)

	Hamlet: Entire Play
		For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour,
		You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is.
		Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
	www-tech.mit.edu /Shakespeare/hamlet/full.html (7753 words)

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