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Yes, but at the time of the play he's been dead for 23 years.
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What was Yorick's profession in the play hamlet?
Jester
Whose skull does Hamlet discover in the churchyard?
The gravedigger, not Hamlet, discovers the skull of the jester Yorick, who Hamlet knew as a child, and has been dead for many years.
What does Hamlet pick up in the graveyard?
Prince Hamlet realizes that it was a skull of a jester whom Prince Hamlet once knew he was Yorick
Why is Yorick wearing a jesters hat?
What we see of Yorick in the play is his skull, wearing no hat at all. Yorick died long before the events in the play Hamlet. But when he was alive he was "the king's jester" and so might have worn a jester's hat back then.
Who is the skull in Hamlet?
The skull belonged to Hamlet's late friend Yorick, a court jester.
What is the subject of Hamlet's speech when he holds the skull of Yorick?
The speech reflects upon life and death. How something that was once alive (the court jester) and whom Hamlet had spent much time with is now lifeless and a rotting corpse.
Has Ken Dodd acted in one of shakespeares plays?
Ken Dodd had a brief non-speaking appearance in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet as Yorick, the King's jester. The scene appears as a flashback while Hamlet is musing on Yorick's skull, and saying "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio . . ."
Who is Hamlet's Yoric?
The Court jester. Deceased.
What is the significance of the skull on Shakespeare's US postage stamp?
It represents a key scene in Hamlet, in which the gravedigger unearths the skull of the jester Yorick.
When was Yorick created?
Yorick was the jester in the royal household when Hamlet was a kid. Hamlet remembers him telling jokes and playing piggy-back with him. Yorick died many years ago, and the gravedigger, while digging a grave for Ophelia, finds Yorick's skull in the earth and presents it to Hamlet, telling him "This, sir, was Yorick's skull, the king's jester." Hamlet remarks to his friend Horatio who is standing by, "Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times and now how abhorrent in my imagination it is. My gorge rises at it. Where be your jibes now? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning--quite chapfallen."
How long has the Grave-digger been digging graves in Hamlet?
The gravedigger (actually the Sexton Clown) thinks Hamlet was sent to England because he was mad. Here is the relevant dialogue. ~=~ Hamlet: Aye, marry, why was he sent into England? Sexton Clown: Why? Because he was mad! He shall recover his wits there, or if he do not, 'tis no great matter there. Hamlet: Why? Sexton Clown: 'Twill not be seen in him there; there, the men are as mad as he. ~=~
Speaking to Yorick's skull Hamlet said Now run to my lady's bedroom and tell her Who is your lady?
This is an excellent question. The correct quotation is "Now get you to my lady's chamber and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come. Make her laugh at that." Two possibilities suggest themselves. First, Yorick was the King's Jester, that is, the jester to Hamlet's father and mother and Hamlet himself when he was a child. Although he has been dead for 23 years, Hamlet can still remember how "he hath borne me on his back", that is, gave him piggyback rides as a child. The "lady" Yorick was employed to entertain was Queen Gertrude. She was the one who he had to make laugh. But it is also possible that Hamlet may be talking about women in general. He could be saying that women, who vainly cover their faces with makeup, will all end up looking like Yorick does now. Death is not beautiful. It takes away beauty. Even in the hands of the most gifted jester, that's not funny. If Hamlet means this in a general sense, then, although he may not specifically be thinking about her, we cannot help connecting his remarks with the girl to whom he said, "God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another" (He had a thing about makeup). And although he doesn't know it now, that girl is going into the same hole Yorick's skull came out of, to begin the 8 or 9 year transformation into his lookalike. When Laertes says, "and from her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring", the picture of Yorick's skull must have flashed before Hamlet's eyes. Laertes wants to make death beautiful, but it's not. It's ugly. Laertes's attempt to make death beautiful and romantic by "painting an inch thick" are a sham and a lie and Hamlet hates him for it.
