Overview
Character Name
Gertrude
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Role Size
Lead
Dramatic Function
Authority Figure, Foil
Relationships
Voice
Non-singer
Time & Place
The Danish court of Elsinore
Analysis
Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother and the Queen of Denmark, is a woman whose swift remarriage after her husband’s death ignites the play’s central moral outrage and remains one of Shakespeare’s most debated female characters. Mourning King Hamlet for scarcely two months, she
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