When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Gertrude (Hamlet) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_(Hamlet)

    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 ).

  3. Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Art_Theatre...

    Nikolai Massalitinov as Claudius and Olga Knipper as Gertrude. The Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet was a 1911–12 production of Hamlet, produced by Konstantin Stanislavski and Edward Gordon Craig. It is particularly important in the history of performances of Hamlet and of 20th-century theatre in general. [1]

  4. Characters in Hamlet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_in_Hamlet

    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. The lady doth protest too much, methinks - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lady_doth_protest_too...

    The Queen in "Hamlet" by Edwin Austin Abbey "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" is a line from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare.It is spoken by Queen Gertrude in response to the insincere overacting of a character in the play within a play created by Prince Hamlet to elicit evidence of his uncle's guilt in the murder of his father, the King of Denmark.

  6. List of Shakespearean characters (L–Z) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shakespearean...

    Queen Gertrude is the protagonist's mother in Hamlet. She has married Claudius. She has married Claudius. Queen (unnamed, a composite of the historical Anne of Bohemia and Isabella of Valois ) is Richard's queen in Richard II , exiled upon his deposition.

  7. Hamlet (Thomas) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_(Thomas)

    The royal Danish court is celebrating the coronation of Queen Gertrude who has married Claudius, brother of the late King Hamlet. Claudius places the crown on Gertrude's head. All leave, and Prince Hamlet, son of the late King and Gertrude, enters. He is upset that his mother has remarried so soon. Ophélie enters, and they sing a love duet.

  8. How Nutcrackers Became a Classic Symbol of Christmas

    www.aol.com/nutcrackers-became-classic-symbol...

    There are so many enduring symbols of Christmas: the trimmed tree, stockings hung by the chimney with care, and of course, jolly Ol' Saint Nick. But for Ree Drummond, there's one Christmas ...

  9. King Claudius - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Claudius

    He arranges a fencing match between Hamlet and Laertes, but plots with Laertes to poison his foil and give Hamlet a poisoned drink. The king's plan fails; Queen Gertrude drinks from the poisoned chalice instead of Hamlet and dies, and Hamlet, after being struck by the poisoned foil, captures the same sword and strikes Laertes, who then finally ...