Who says Hamlet is 17? The gravedigger says (V,i, 150) that he started work as a gravedigger "the very day young Hamlet was born", and later (V,i, 164) "I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty years". Which means of course that Hamlet is 30.
We have no idea what Shakespeare liked to do when he was a child.
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Hamlet, Act 5 , scene 1. Hamlet and Horatio are in a churchyard with two gravediggers. Hamlet holds a skull, that of Yorick, a king's jester, and says, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellowof infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hathborne me on his back a thousand times; and now, howabhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims atit. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I knownot how oft. Where be your gibes now? yourgambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not onenow, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, lether paint an inch thick, to this favour she mustcome; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tellme one thing." A common misquotation of the famous line, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio," is "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, well."
Maybe he played in the willow trees. We have no idea.
William was the 3rd child of 8 children, and the first son of his parents, John and Mary.
The gravedigger, not Hamlet, discovers the skull of the jester Yorick, who Hamlet knew as a child, and has been dead for many years.
No, Hamlet is an only child.
William Shakespeare
He tells him that he knew him, and that he was a fellow of most infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. In other words, he was a funny guy. He also used to carry Hamlet piggyback when Hamlet was a child.
We have no idea what Shakespeare liked to do when he was a child.
Shakespeare's daughter Susannah was born in May 1583. as she was the oldest child
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We have no idea what Shakespeare's thoughts as a child might have been.
Hamlet, Act 5 , scene 1. Hamlet and Horatio are in a churchyard with two gravediggers. Hamlet holds a skull, that of Yorick, a king's jester, and says, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellowof infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hathborne me on his back a thousand times; and now, howabhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims atit. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I knownot how oft. Where be your gibes now? yourgambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not onenow, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, lether paint an inch thick, to this favour she mustcome; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tellme one thing." A common misquotation of the famous line, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio," is "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, well."
Susanna. She and her husband were the main beneficiaries of Shakespeare's estate.