What is Gertrude’s role in all this, and was her marriage to Claudius unduly hasty or a need to maintain stability in the state and the passage of time?
Address the following questions and support your answers with a specific example/passage from the reading: a) In the court scene (11.11), is Claudius genuine in his wish to keep Hamlet at court? He permits Laertes to return to France, yet he refuses to grant similar permission to Hamlet, so why would Claudius wish to keep […]