Most Seeming Virtuous Queen is an adaptation of Hamlet in verse, focusing on the interactions we don’t get to see in Shakespeare’s text, teasing out the thread of the theory that Gertrude holds some responsibility for Ophelia’s downfall, and examining the tightening spiral of the enmeshed relationship that leads them there. As Hamlet plays strange and cruel tricks on her, Ophelia is left to put all her trust in Gertrude, under whose guidance Ophelia is led to a tragic end, witnessed by no one but Gertrude herself. This just-barely-modernized Early Modern play is the feminist take on Hamlet you’ve always wanted, that cannot help but make a vexation of feminism in its taking.