FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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The former court jester’s
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Ophelia’s
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Reynaldo’s
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His father’s
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the Hamlet skull scene, it is Yorick’s skull that Hamlet holds as he speaks. Yorick was the jester of the king.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet has no idea to whom the grave belongs. When Hamlet finds a particular skull, he asks the gravedigger whose it might be. The gravedigger tells him the skull belonged to Yorick, the King’s jester.
Detailed explanation-3: -It is spoken by Hamlet, the play’s central protagonist, to his friend Horatio. They are in a graveyard, and Hamlet has just picked up the skull of Yorick, who was a jester in Hamlet’s father’s court.
Detailed explanation-4: -The gravedigger hands Hamlet the skull of Yorick, Hamlet Sr.’s court jester. Hamlet’s first reaction to this news is to muse on the close relationship he and Yorick had.
Detailed explanation-5: -Hamlet meditating upon the skull of Yorick has become a lasting embodiment of this idea, and has been depicted by later artists as part of the vanitas tradition.