bull-kind

Updated: June 17, 2025

Kemble, in Hamlet, with that ever memorable skull in his hand, was one of the pieces which we viewed with no little interest. It is strange that Hamlet is always represented as a thin, lean man, when the Hamlet of Shakspere was a fat, John Bull-kind of a man.

William Wells Brown - Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met