ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

HAMLET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was Yorick?
A
A soldier
B
A prince
C
A clown
D
A poet
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Yorick was a character in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. He was the King’s jester and once poured a flagon of Rhenish on the head of a gravedigger, who described him as a “whoreson mad fellow". Hamlet, who knew him well, said that he was a “fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy".

Detailed explanation-2: -Yorick died twenty-three years ago in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. According to the plot of the play, Yorick was a jester at the king’s court. He was also well acquainted with the prince, Hamlet. They both played and enjoyed together in Hamlet’s childhood days.

Detailed explanation-3: -Who is Yorick? Yorick was the king’s jester, who Hamlet knew well as a child. Part of the quote is Hamlet saying that he remembers how funny Yorick was, and how he rode piggyback on Yorick’s back a thousand times.

Detailed explanation-4: -Yorick is the fictional former jester of king of Denmark, named in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The name reappears some years later in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. One of the characters in Sterne’s comic novel is Parson Yorick, a name later used as a pseudonym by Sterne.

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