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Character Name
Gertrude
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Gender
Female
Adult, Mature Adult
Lead
Voice
Non-singer
Time & Place
danish court of elsinore
Analysis
Hamlet’s beautiful mother and the Queen of Denmark, Gertrude mourned her late husband, Hamlet Sr., for about two months before jumping into “incestuous sheets” by marrying Claudius, his brother. Painted as a woman with a bit of a weak moral character (“Frailty, thy name is
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