the Levirates print’s provenance

The Gertrude question in a single framed picture on the wall. The Consummation of the Levirates print — the levirate-marriage emblem (the taking of a dead brother's widow, the Deuteronomic shadow of the Claudius arrangement) that frames Hal's Hamlet-in-his-lap tableau in 050 — turns out to predate Himself's whole film career and to be a thing "Hal correctly remembers Avril always loathing." And yet it still hangs in the Headmaster's House living room four years after Himself's suicide, "not like anybody asked her to keep the thing up." The widow keeps on her wall, for years past the death, an image she hates whose subject is the levirate marriage — the succession-and-remarriage motif the whole family-frame turns on. The note leaves the queerness of it standing, unexplained: a loathed emblem of the dead brother's widow, kept up by the widow herself.