The Stunning Story Behind the Real Human Skull That David Tennant Held as Hamlet [Unpaywalled]
In 2008, the English actor David Tennant, well-known to millions for playing Dr. Who, held up a skull, stared at it for a moment, eye to eye-socket, and then said: “Alas, Poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio.”
Tennant, of course, was playing Hamlet in the iconic graveyard scene for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Yorick had been the King’s jester when Hamlet …