<description>This scene takes place entirely in a graveyard! And Shakespeare, sensing things are getting a bit heavy, lightens things up with some comedy between two gravediggers! One of the gravediggers pops up a skull that belonged to the court jester, Yorick, and hands it to Hamlet. This begins one of the most famous vignettes in&amp;#8230;&amp;#160;&lt;a href="https://brushupyourshakespeare.org/2024/08/alas-poor-yorick-hamlet-act-v-scene-1-brush-up-your-shakespeare-020/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Read More &amp;#187;&lt;span class="screen-reader-text"&gt;&amp;#8220;Alas, Poor Yorick!&amp;#8221;: Hamlet, Act V, scene 1: Brush Up Your Shakespeare: 020&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>

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“Alas, Poor Yorick!”: Hamlet, Act V, scene 1: Brush Up Your Shakespeare: 020

AUG 28, 2024-1 MIN
Brush Up Your Shakespeare

“Alas, Poor Yorick!”: Hamlet, Act V, scene 1: Brush Up Your Shakespeare: 020

AUG 28, 2024-1 MIN

Description

This scene takes place entirely in a graveyard! And Shakespeare, sensing things are getting a bit heavy, lightens things up with some comedy between two gravediggers! One of the gravediggers pops up a skull that belonged to the court jester, Yorick, and hands it to Hamlet. This begins one of the most famous vignettes in Shakespeare: That of Hamlet holding a skull in the palm of his hand while he speaks to it! And what Hamlet has to say to that skull may be some of the darkest lines in literature!