![]() ![]() Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. It's Morning Edition.Ĭopyright © 2008 NPR. Alas, poor Yorick will no longer be played by Tchaikowsky. Then word got out, and the company decided this real skull was upstaging the actors. And there it remained in a tissue-lined box until now. André Tchaikowsky wasn't joking when he said he wanted to have his skull play the part of Yorick in "Hamlet." When the acclaimed pianist died in 1982, he bequeathed his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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