Ophelia is being buried in a full Christian burial by two clowns. They debate whether it is possible for a person, who has drowned, can be anything but a suicide. The clowns joke togethera gallows-maker builds stronger than a mason, ship-maker or carpenter because his handiwork will last more than a thousand tenants. Another answer? A gravedigger because his house lasts forever. One sings merrily in the midst of this macabre task as Hamlet and Horatio appear. As the clowns dig up skulls, Hamlet conjectures on who they might be. They come upon the skull of the court jester, Yorick, someone who Hamlet knew well. Hamlet laments the fate of men. Even Alexander and Caesar will become like Yorick. Hamlet's reveries are interrupted by a royal procession, carrying with it the.....
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