"The Graveyard and the Frontier: Hamlet among the Buffaloes"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbm464/
Author:
	James, Heather.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2022
Publication Information:
	Representations 159, no. 1 (2022): 58–89. (https://online.ucpress.edu/representations/article-abstract/159/1/58/190277/The-Graveyard-and-the-FrontierHamlet-among-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext)
DOI:
	10.1525/rep.2022.159.3.58
Annotation:
	Argues iconic image of Hamlet contemplating Yorick's skull informed art, science, and ethical philosophy of the American frontier. Focuses on painting by William Jacob Hays (1830–75), Herd on the Move, which features bison in Hamlet-like posture gazing on bison skull. Analyzes painting "to trace the theme of the extinction of species as it is embedded in the 'translation of empire' and Manifest Destiny." English summary, 58.
Language:
	English
Tags:
	Hamlet, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare and the Arts
WSB Update:
	Summer 2024
WSB Record Number:
	bbbm464