"Yorick's Skull and the Farting Irishwomen: Folkloric Migrations in Late Medieval Literature"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo346/
Author:
	Lowe, Dunstan.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2024
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Quarterly 75, no. 4 (2024): 274–90.
DOI:
	10.1093/sq/quae046
Annotation:
	Identifies earlier instance of Hamlet's gravedigger scene with Yorick's skull in "a medieval anecdote about an Irishman named Clefsan, in the Old Norse text Konungs skuggsjá (The King's Mirror)." Traces Clefsan's story, about a jester's skull that causes those who look into its mouth to laugh, through late medieval folklores.
Language:
	English
Keywords:
	Norway
Tags:
	Hamlet, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare's Sources and Influences on Shakespeare
WSB Update:
	Fall 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo346