Different Actresses playing Gertrude.
| Preformance of Gertrudes monologue after Ophelia's death.
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Gertrude is kinda 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 things to which man has become slave. Gertrude is shallow, and thinks only about her body and external pleasures. After all she remarries immediately after her husbands death, to his brother for crying out loud. She enraptured by trinkets and fine clothes, soft pillows and warm baths. Gertrude is also a very sexual being, and it is her sexuality that turns Hamlet so violently against her. |
