The gravediggers in Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" are characters who appear in Act 5, Scene 1. These gravediggers are a comic relief duo who provide dark humor and commentary on death and mortality while digging Ophelia's grave. Their banter adds a lighthearted touch to the otherwise tragic events unfolding in the play.
The Gravediggers was created in 1600.
The Gravediggers - 2005 was released on: USA: 24 April 2005 (Newport Beach International Film Festival)
Shakespeare wrote the scene with the gravediggers into Hamlet to make a comic break and to give a part to the company's clown.
The cast of The Gravediggers - 2005 includes: Mike Apple as Dave Ludwig Manukian as Kyle Charles Pasternak as Roy
The Gravediggers Tour - 2014 was released on: USA: 8 March 2014 (Chicago Irish Film Festival) (premiere)
The Road West - 1966 A War for the Gravediggers 1-27 was released on: USA: 10 April 1967
In Scene 1 of "Hamlet," the gravediggers are debating over whether Ophelia’s death was a suicide or an accident. They discuss the religious implications of her death and the practices surrounding her burial.
Night - book - was created in 1960.
The clowns, rather the gravediggers, talk like that because when they are talking Hamlet is not present. It is after one of the gravediggers has exited that Hamlet and Horatio enter.
The book Night is set in Nazi Germany.
Night - book - has 109 pages.
Tom Hendry has written: 'Gravediggers of 1942'