Yorick Stacked Skulls
by Edward Fielding
Title
Yorick Stacked Skulls
Artist
Edward Fielding
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Note: the watermark in the lower right does not appear in the final print.
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Two scary skulls stacked on each other. Fine art photography by Edward M. Fielding
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Yorick
Hamlet character
Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix 018.jpg
Yorick's skull in the 'gravedigger scene' (5.1), depicted by Eugène Delacroix.
Created by William Shakespeare
Date(s) 16/17th century
Yorick is a character in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. He is the dead court jester whose skull is exhumed by the First Gravedigger in Act 5, Scene 1, of the play. The sight of Yorick's skull evokes a reminiscence by Prince Hamlet of the man, who apparently played a role during Hamlet’s upbringing:
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? (Hamlet, V.i)
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