400 characters of context from Alan R. Young, Visual Representations of Hamlet, 1709-1900

nd 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

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Selous - Hamlet with Skull

give one further example, Harold Copping in 1897 omitted Ho