Alas! Poor Yorick!

1913 film

Wheeler Oakman
Tom Santschi
Lillian Hayward
Hobart Bosworth

Release date

April 21, 1913 (1913-04-21)

CountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent with English intertitles

Alas! Poor Yorick! is a 1913 American short comedy film featuring Fatty Arbuckle.^[1] The film's title is taken from the Shakespeare play Hamlet. The film was both written and directed by Colin Campbell, and was released on April 21, 1913.

Plot

A mental patient, who in his mind is an amazing actor, escapes from a psychiatric hospital. Every theater manager in town is notified and the first man that causes suspicion is Montgomery Irving, a poor actor in disgrace who honestly looks and acts crazy. He applies for the position, but he doesn't understand why he is arrested without any reason, when he was about to destroy the house the manager is informed that the real patient was captured somewhere else.

Cast

Wheeler Oakman
Tom Santschi (as Thomas Santschi)
Lillian Hayward
Hobart Bosworth
John Lancaster
Frank Clark
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

References

^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Alas! Poor Yorick!". Silent Era. Retrieved May 21, 2008.

External links

Alas! Poor Yorick! at IMDb

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Characters

Soliloquies

Words and phrases

Terminology

Dumbshow
Induction
Quiddity
Substitution

Influence

Common phrases from Hamlet
Cultural references to Hamlet
Cultural references to Ophelia
Language of flowers
Human skull symbolism

Performances

Moscow Art Theatre (1911–1912)
Richard Burton (1964)

On screen

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Adaptations

Films	The Rest Is Silence (1959) The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Ophelia (1963) Johnny Hamlet (1968) One Hamlet Less (1973) The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet (1977) Strange Brew (1983) Hamlet Goes Business (1987) The Lion King (1994) Let the Devil Wear Black (1999) The Banquet (2006) Doubt (2009) Karmayogi (2012) Haider (2014) Hamlet A.D.D. (2014) Hemanta (2016) Ophelia (2018) The Lion King (2019)
Novels	Hamlet Had an Uncle (1940) Too, Too Solid Flesh (1989) Gertrude and Claudius (2000) Dating Hamlet (2002) The Dead Fathers Club (2006) Something Rotten (2007) Hamlet's Father (2008) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (2008)
Plays	Hamletmachine (1977) Dogg's Hamlet (1979) Fortinbras (1991)
Musicals	Rockabye Hamlet (1973)
Television	Hamlet (Australian TV, 1959) Hamlet at Elsinore (BBC, 1964) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (BBC, 1980) Hamlet (BBC 2, animated, 1992) Hamlet (BBC 2, 2009)

Parodies

15-Minute Hamlet
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
I, Hamlet
The Klingon Hamlet
"Lyle the Kindly Viking"
To Be or Not to Be: That is the Adventure
"Tales from the Public Domain"
The Skinhead Hamlet

Songs

"My Robin is to the greenwood gone" (16th century)
"Pull Me Under" (1992)
"Song for Athene" (1997)

Opera/classical

Hamlet (Thomas)
Amleto (Faccio)
Hamlet (Tchaikovsky)
Tristia (Berlioz)
Die Hamletmaschine (Rihm)
Hamlet (Dean)

In popular culture

Films	To Be or Not to Be (1942) A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja (1973) To Be or Not to Be (1983) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) Last Action Hero (1993) Renaissance Man (1994) In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) War (2002) Hamlet 2 (2008) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (2009) Three Days (2012)
Plays	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) Stage Blood (1974) I Hate Hamlet (1991) To Be or Not to Be (2008)
Novels	Hamlet, Revenge! (1937) Theatre of War (1994) "The Undiscovered" (1997) The Shakespeare Stealer (1998) Interred with Their Bones (2007) Hamnet (2020)
Television	"The Producer" (1966) "The Conscience of the King" (1966) "Born to Be King" (1983) "Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow" (2001) Slings & Arrows (2003)
Video games	Last Action Hero (1993) Hamlet (2010) Elsinore (2019)
Books	Asterix and the Great Crossing The Seagull Sharpe's Havoc