...roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamher, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come, make her laugh at that Death's Head It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words and, by extension,- an image is worth...

...skeletons epic proportions. Ophelia's a-moldering outside somewhere in an unmarked, unhallowed ditch. Now get you to my lady's chamber and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come. We devour a dinner of delectable Danish ribs, two full racks, and spend the night...

...(Ill.i. 142-4) His obsession with women's makeup culminates in his instructions to Yorick's skull: Now get you to my lady's chamber. and tell her. let her paint an inch thick. to this favor she must come; make her laugh at that. (Vi 192-5) The movement of this speech is characteristic...

...skeleton's epic proportions. Ophelia's a-moldering outside somewhere in an unmarked, unhallowed ditch. Now get you to my lady's chamber and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come. We devour a dinner of delectable Danish ribs, two full racks, and spend the night...

...your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now to mock your own grinning? Quite chop-fallen!...this favour she must come. Make her laugh at that. (5.1.171-80) This powerful memento mori, a theatrical confrontation with the effects of death, centrally...

...that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now to mock your own grinning? Quite chop fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let...laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. HORATIO What's that, my lord. HAMLET Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i'th' earth?...

...Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest. . . Here hung those lips, that I have kiss'd I know not how oft. . . Now get you to my Lady's chamber, and tell her, let...this favour she must come. Make her laugh at that. (V, i, 178-89) So far in this scene the extinction of Hamlet as trickster is staged twice. First, Hamlet...

...Hamlet's attack on cosmetics both in his scene with Ophelia and in the graveyard where he tells Yorick: 'Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let...paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.' But the speech is also linked with the discussion of the purpose of playing and the frequent stage...

...blazoned upon the skin, may ultimately hasten one's end. Like Hamlet's address to Yorick's skull — "Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come"cosmetics remind the mercurial woman that she cannot — as one contemporary observer...

...we see Hamlet with a skull in his hand — a typical memento mori pose. Hamlet addresses the skull: "Get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor [face] she must come" (5.1.192-94). (In other words: go and tell women that this is what a female...