Yorick

Also known as: the King’s jester · Family: Danish court · Role: jester · First appears: Hamlet · Act V, Scene I

Life events

• Hamlet recognizes Yorick’s skull and confronts the physical reality of his former companion’s death.(Hamlet · Act V, Scene I)
  • With: Hamlet
  • “This same skull, sir, was Yorick’s skull, the King’s jester.”

Hamlet · Act V, Scene I

• with Hamlet (Former personal acquaintance and affectionate familiarity.) “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!”

Also listed in Danish Court — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Tragedies. Made with Rho MD.