Hamlet speaks the line in a graveyard, as a meditation on the fragility of life, as he looks at the skull of Yorick. The dramatic line ' Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio' comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Where does Alas poor Yorick I knew him well come from? A prequel to Shakespeares Hamlet, featuring. What I want to try to do is obviously bring Yorick back from the dead as an Undead Court Jester But instead of the regular clown face paint, I want to make Yorick more scary by making his clown face paint also look like a skull. When Hamlet encounters Yorick's skull, he plays with it, then uses it as an occasion to reflect on mortality. With Michael Dalmon, Benjamin Pascoe, Robert Graham, Irina Bjrklund. Hamlet takes the skull of Yorick and contemplates the memories that he shared with the Court Jester.
However, when he was alive, he was King Hamlet's jester.
Subsequently, question is, how did Yorick die in Hamlet? Yorick is dead. It was fashionable in the 19th century for people studying. (he takes the skull) Oh, poor Yorick! I used to know him, Horatio-a very funny guy, and with an excellent imagination.Īlas, 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 rims at it. Its an old copy of a famous portrait of John Phillip Kemble playing Hamlet (see last picture).