rm, he hold theskull as if he is about to hand it up to some unseen person standing
at the side of the grave. Both John Gilbert in 1860
[Gilbert-HamletwithSkull.jpg]
Gilbert - Hamlet with Skull
and Henry Selous eight years later also created somewhat unusual
designs in that Hamlet is depicted holding the skull up high before
his face in the manner thought to have been introduced by Edmund Kean
much earlier in the century. Then towards the end of the century, to
[Selous-HamletwithSkull.jpg]
Selous - Hamlet with Skull
give one further example, Harold Copping in 1897 omitted Horatio and
placed Hamlet and the Gravedigger in intimate proximity to each other,
the skull providing the meeting point between the two. This effect
seems to sharpen our awareness of what the youn
