Sexton (office)
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A sexton is an officer of a church, congregation, or synagogue charged with the maintenance of its buildings and/or an associated cemetery. In smaller places of worship, this office is often combined
Hablot Knight Browne illustration: "The Goblin and the sexton" (published in The Pickwick Papers, 1837)
Hamlet
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the p
Sexton (office)
…of the word via the Old French "Segrestein". Among the traditional duties of the sexton in small parishes was the digging of graves—the gravedigger in Hamlet refers to himself as sexton, for example. In modern times, grave digging and maintenance of the cemetery is usually done by an outside contractor. The…
Hamlet portrayed by Edwin Booth (c. 1870)
Kronborg Castle is immortalised as Elsinore in the play Hamlet
Hamlet mistakenly stabs Polonius (Artist: Coke Smyth, 19th century).
The gravedigger scene. (Artist: Eugène Delacroix, 1839)