FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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19
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20
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30
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40
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Detailed explanation-1: -The gravedigger has been at his trade (i.e., a sexton) for thirty years. Hamlet is therefore thirty years old, however out of keeping that might seem with the rest of the play.
Detailed explanation-2: -It figures then that Yorick died when Hamlet was about 7. So Hamlet is 30.
Detailed explanation-3: -compositor of the First Folio meant to say with this line exactly what he did say (and what he presumed Shakespeare meant to say), that Hamlet was sixteen.
Detailed explanation-4: -The gravedigger tells Hamlet how long he has been in the grave-digging business and how long a corpse will physically hold up until it begins the decaying process. He then picks up a skull, comments how long it has been buried, and identifies the skull as that of the former King’s jester, Yorick.