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Who is the jester in Twelfth Night?

A number of plays had fools or jesters of various kinds, to exploit the members of Shakespeare's company who were comedians--first Will Kemp and later Robert Armin. Touchstone from As You Like It is often costumed as a jester, as are Feste from Twelfth Night, the Fool from King Lear, Lavatch in All's Well that Ends Well, and Costard in Love's Labour's Lost. Some characters of this type are less likely to be costumed in this way, such as the bitterly cynical Apemantus in Timon of Athens or Thersites in Troilus and Cressida.


What play is the phrase Alas poor yorick I knew him Horatio come from?

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."


What are the things that represent Hamlet?

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


Allusions in Hamlet?

2nd Sentence- Alas, poor Yorick! Hamlet- "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 abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?"


Does Macbeth hold a skull in his hand?

Not usually; such an action is not required of him, although a director might well have him examining a skull if he wanted to. This situation is quite different from Hamlet, who is often portrayed as holding a skull because he is required by the script to hold and examine the skull of the jester Yorick while delivering the famous lines "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio." Vindice in Thomas Middleton's play The Revenger's Tragedy is also required by the script to hold the skull of his murdered girlfriend.