The gravedigger, not Hamlet, discovers the skull of the jester Yorick, who Hamlet knew as a child, and has been dead for many years.
Prince Hamlet realizes that it was a skull of a jester whom Prince Hamlet once knew he was Yorick
Hamlet keeps his skull inside his head. He does have a look at various dead people's skulls however.
Hamlet is typically represented with an image of him in Act V, holding the skull of Yorick. A skull is the object most used to represent Hamlet
The skull belonged to Hamlet's late friend Yorick, a court jester.
In the play Hamlet, Hamlet uses a sword, a wine glass, and a skull.
Yoricks Skull
His Dada was killed, bro!
January 19 1571 find more on : http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet/characters.html and if u have a play in your school and u r as hamlet then no need to hold a skull, just hold a ball with a skull drawn on it. that's what i'm doin'
It represents a key scene in Hamlet, in which the gravedigger unearths the skull of the jester Yorick.
The skull of Yorick
As there was not enough room in the skull for a brain