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The incest runs throughout some plays, films and television. There's strongest overtones of incestuous desire of Hamlet and Gertrude in some versions, for example Hamlet (1948) and Hamlet (1990) (Mel Gibson version).

* Gertrude married her former brother-in-law Claudius (Hamlet consider incest) * A subtle motif motif of incestuous desire can be found in the relationship of Laertes and Ophelia, as Laertes sometimes speaks to his sister in suggestively sexual term and, at her funeral, leaps into her grave to hold her in his arms. *Stronges overtones incest at Hamlet and Gertrude

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