Hamlet and his GertrudeHow regal is the current queen in Shakespeare's tragic drama Hamlet? Is she an unprincipled opportunist? A lover dominated by passion? A wife first and a mother last? Let's study his life in this room. Courtney Lehmann and Lisa S. Starks in "Making Mother Matter: Repression, Revision, and the Stakes of 'Reading Psychoanalysis Into' Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet," comment on the Queen's contamination in Shakespeare's Hamlet: Hamlet, a Play Centered on Crisis of the male subject and his "radical confrontation with the sexualized maternal body", foregrounds male anxiety regarding mothers, female sexuality and, consequently, sexuality itself. Obsessed with the corruption of the flesh, Hamlet is pathologically obsessed with questions of his own origin and destination – questions that are activated by his irrepressible attraction to and disgust for his mother's "contaminated" body. (1) At the beginning of the drama, Hamlet's mother is apparently disturbed by the appearance of her son in solemn black at the court assembly, and she asks him: Good Hamlet, throw away your night color, and let your eye look like a friend in Denmark. Do not always look, with your veiled eyelids, for your noble father in the dust: you know that it is common; everything that lives must die, passing through nature into eternity. (1.2) The queen obviously considers that her son's discouragement results from the disappearance of his father. She joins the king in asking Hamlet to stay in Elsinore rather than return to Wittenberg. Respectfully, the prince responds: “I will obey you as best I can, Madam. » So, at the beginning, the audience notes a decidedly...... middle of paper ......ges.com/hamlet/other/burton-hamlet.htmColeridge, Samuel Taylor. Lectures and notes on Shakspere and other English poets. London: George Bell and Sons, 1904. p. 342-368. http://ds.dial.pipex.com/thomas_larque/ham1-col.htmJorgensen, Paul A. “Hamlet.” William Shakespeare: The Tragedies. Boston: Twayne Publ., 1985. N. pag. http://www.freehomepages.com/hamlet/other/jorg-hamlet.htmlLehmann, Courtney and Lisa S. Starks. “Making the mother matter: repression, revision and the challenges of” reading psychoanalysis in Kenneth Branagh’s “Hamlet.” Early Modern Literary Studies 6.1 (May 2000): 2.1-24. Shakespeare, William. The tragedy of Hamlet, prince of Denmark. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1995. http://www.chemicool.com/Shakespeare/hamlet/full.html No line number.