Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief. (II,ii)
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Christian Rushmick: Brevity Is the Soul
Majid Siddiqi: The Soul of Wit: Short Poems
Carl Hill: The Soul of Wit: Joke Theory from
Grimm to Freud
Murray Roston: The Soul of Wit: A Study of
John Donne
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Polonius. What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet. Words, words, words. (II,ii)
Eugène Delacroix:
Hamlet and Polonius
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Herbert Spencer: Words, Words, Words
Mary O'Neill: Words, Words, Words
Elizabeth S. Helfman: Words, Words, Words
Eric Partridge: Words, Words, Words
Norman Schachter: Words, Words, Words
W. D. Sheeler: Words, Words, Words
Tracey E. Dils: Words, Words, Words
Marvin S. Zackerman: Words, Words, Words:
An English Vocabulary Builder and Anthology
Babs Bell: Words, Words, Words: A
Reference Book for Beginning Writers
Richard R. Lodwig: Words, Words, Words:
Vocabularies and Dictionaries
Gunilla Anderson & Margaret Rogers, eds.:
Words, Words, Words: The Translator
and the Language Learner
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Though this be madness, yet there is method
in't. (II,ii)
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Robert Keable: Though This Be Madness
Doris Miles Disney: Method in Madness
Zdenek Jan Vaclavik: The Method in Madness:
A Unitary Neuro-Physiological Theory of Neurosis and
Psychosis
Maurice Yacowar: The Method in the Madness:
The Comic Art of Mel Brooks
John Kane-Berman: South Africa: The
Method in the Madness
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Hamlet. Good lads, how do ye both?
Rosencrantz. As the indifferent children of the
earth.(II,ii)

Sarah
Bernhardt
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Louis Auchincloss: The Indifferent Children
Ethel Mannin: Children of the Earth
Annie Macfarlane: Children of the Earth
Freddie Langeler: Children of the Earth
Amy Churba: Children of the Earth
Sydney Sipho Sepamla:Children of the Earth
Catherine Wells: Children of the Earth
Jan Parson: Children of the Earth
Marc Shell: Children of the Earth: Literature,
Politics, and Nationhood
Stephen Krensky: Children of the Earth and
Sky: Five Stories about Native American Children
Renée S. Flood: Children of the Earth: Honoring
the People
Pita Graham: Children of Earth and Sky: Maori
Nature Traditions
Johan G. Andersson: Children of the Yellow
Earth: Studies in Prehistoric China
Schim Schimmel: Dear Children of the Earth:
A Letter from Home
Schim Schimmel: Children of the Earth...
Remember
Buckminster Fuller: Buckminster Fuller to
Children of Earth
Yukinobu Hoshino: 2001 Nights: Children of
Earth
Peter W. Rose: Sons of the Gods, Children
of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece
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Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is
nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes
it so. (II,ii)
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Marcia Gillespie, ed.: But Thinking Makes It
So: Conformity and Deviance in Social Problems
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O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count
myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I
have bad dreams. (II,ii)
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Nigel Balchin: Kings of Infinite Space
Allen Steele: A King of Infinite Space
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Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very
substance of the ambition is merely the shadow
of a dream. (II,ii)
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Charlotte Haldane: The Shadow of a Dream
William Dean Howells: The Shadow of a
Dream and an Imperative Duty
Peter A. Coclanis: The Shadow of a Dream:
Economic Life and Death in the South
Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920
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And indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition
that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a
sterile promintory. (II,ii)
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Francis Tiffany: This Goodly Frame, the Earth
Jill M. Phillips: Sterile Promontory: The Second
World War in History, Biography, Diary,
Poetry, Literature and Film
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What a piece of work is man! how noble in
reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and
moving how express and admirable! in action
how like an angel! in apprehension, how like
a god! (II,ii)

Henry Irving
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James Davis Ray, comp.: What a Piece of
Work Is Man: Introductory Readings in Biology
Wesley D. Camp: What a Piece of Work Is
Man!: Camp's Unfamiliar Quotations
from 2000 B.C. to the Present
Eric Kraft: What a Piece of Work I Am
(A Confabulation)
Will Baker: What a Piece of Work: Stories
Jay Woodruff, ed.: A Piece of Work: Five
Writers Discuss Their Revisions
Lance Salway: A Nasty Piece of Work and
Other Ghost Stories
Roger Law et alia: A Nasty Piece of Work:
The Art and Graft of Spitting Image
Rupert Croft-Cooke: Nasty Piece of Work
Phyllis Bentley: Noble in Reason
Margaret Millar: How Like an Angel
A. G. MacDonnell: How Like an Angel
Jonas Salk: How Like an Angel: Biology and
the Nature of Man
A. Bronson Alcott & Alice O. Howell, eds.:
How Like an Angel Came I Down:
Conversations with Children on the Gospels
Stewart Thomson: How Like a God
Victoria Schrager: How Like a God
Rex Stout: How Like a God
Brenda W. Clough: How Like a God
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I am but mad north-north-west: when the
wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a
handsaw. (II,ii)
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Rollin DeVere: A Hawk from a Handsaw
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Then came each actor on his ass -- (II,ii)
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Bernard Grebanier: Then Came Each
Actor
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For the play, I remember, pleased not the
million; 'twas caviare to the general. (II,ii)
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R. Balfour Daniels: Caviar to the General
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If the gods themselves did see her then
When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport
In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs,
The instant burst of clamour that she made,
Unless things mortal move them not at all,
Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven. (II,ii)
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Isaac Asimov: The Gods Themselves
Jerry Pournelle: Burning Eye
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Do you hear, let them be well used; for they
are the abstract and brief chronicles of the
time. (II,ii)
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Alex Aronson: Brief Chronicles of the Time:
Personal Recollections of My Stay in Bengal, 1937 - 1946
James E. Agate: Brief Chronicles
William Winter: Brief Chronicles
Brooks Atkinson: Brief Chronicles
Martin Esslin: Brief Chronicles: Essays on
Modern Theater
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Follow him, friends; we'll hear a play
tomorrow. (II,ii)
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John Courtenay Trewin: We'll Hear a Play
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Is it not monstrous that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul to his own conceit...
(II,ii)
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Lee Strasberg: A Dream of Passion: The
Development of the Method
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For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ. (II,ii)
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Joan Smith: Murder Will Speak
Benjamin Bennett: Murder Will Speak
Alfred Walter Stuart: Murder Will Speak
George Bellairs: Murder Will Speak...
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What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her? What would he do,
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have? (II,ii)
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Elmer Rice: Cue for Passion
William Neubauer: Cue for Passion
Edward Chodorov: Cue for Passion
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The play's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the
king. (II,ii)


Cross-cut of the Globe
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Ferenc Molnar: The Play's the Thing
Jack Blacklock: The Play's the Thing
Lawrence Langner: The Play's the Thing
Howard Ralston: The Play's the Thing
Herbert Allen: The Play's the Thing
Peter Siebel: The Play's the Thing
Brian N. Rose: Play's the Thing
Philip V. R. Tilney: The Play's the Thing
John Knox Forte: The Play's the Thing
Peter Pitt: The Play's the Thing
Anon. Comp.: The Play's the Thing: Four
Original Television Dramas
Mary Davis: The Play's the Thing: A Manual
of Drill Games
Fred B. Millet: Play's the Thing: An Anthology
of Dramatic Types
Joseph E. Mersand: The Play's the Thing:
Enjoying the Plays of Today
Lilian Holmes Strack: The Play's the Thing:
A Contest Selection
Marvin A. Carlson & Yvonne Shaver: The Play's
the Thing: An Introduction to Theatre
Marina Jenkyns: The Play's the Thing:
Exploring Text in Drama and Therapy
Elizabeth Jones: The Play's the Thing:
Teachers' Roles in Children's Play
Francis Lewis Gould: The Play's the Thing:
Suggestions Regarding the Play of Cards
in Contract Bridge
Alfred Duggan: The Conscience of the King
Jane Barry: The Conscience of the King
Archibald Clavering Gunter: The Conscience
of a King
Bertram Joseph: Conscience and the King
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