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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 ).
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.
Gertrude, queen of Denmark and mother of Hamlet, who is married to her first husband’s murderer in Shakespeare’s tragedy
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An overview of the characters and cast of the 2009 TV adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company production with David Tennant.
Gertrude is a character in Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, and she is Prince Hamlet’s mother. There are some characters in Shakespeare that defy analysis because they are too difficult to make out, and Gertrude probably heads that list.
The Gertrude who does emerge clearly in Hamlet is a woman defined by her desire for station and affection, as well as by her tendency to use men to fulfill her instinct for self-preservation—which, of course, makes her extremely dependent upon the men in her life.
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Gertrude is, more so than any other character in the play, the antithesis of her son, Hamlet. Hamlet is a scholar and a philosopher, searching for life's most elusive answers. He cares nothing for this "mortal coil" and the vices to which man has become slave.
