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The gravedigger (actually the Sexton Clown) thinks Hamlet was sent to England because he was mad.
Here is the relevant dialogue.
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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.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoThe gravedigger has been digging graves since the day Hamlet was born. He apparently was familliar with Hamlet ( and the rest of the household) in his youth and points out a skull that used to belong to the Yorick, the king's jester and Hamlet's caretaker.
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∙ 12y agoNothing much happens. It's just Hamlet talking to the gravedigger and getting a lot of equivocating answers. They talk about who is to be buried in the grave, how long the gravedigger has had his job, Hamlet's madness, and the rate of decomposition of corpses. As an example, the gravedigger produces a 23-year-old skull which turns out to belong to someone Hamlet knew as a child, the jester Yorick. Whereupon Hamlet assumes the iconic pose, looks at the skull and says, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio."
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∙ 9y agoThat he has gone mad and has been sent to England where his madness won't be noticed.
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Whose skull does Hamlet discover in the churchyard?
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