The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 22.0312  Monday, 28 November 2011

 

From:         Richard Waugaman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>

Date:         Saturday, 26 Nov 2011 18:01:35 -0500

Subject:      Updike on Hamlet

 

My copy of John Updike's posthumous collection of essays, Higher Criticism, just arrived today. I recommend his letter to the Boston Globe, about his 2000 Hamlet prequel, the novel Gertrude and Claudius

 

Updike writes, for example, "Several Shakespeare commentaries, especially one by the Spanish thinker Salvador de Madariaga, helped me see that Hamlet is in fact the callous, egocentric villain of Hamlet." By contrast, "I love Gertrude, and always have." 

 

I'm not implying I agree.

 

Richard Waugaman

 

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