To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die; to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause; there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
That undiscover'd country from whose bourne
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd. (III,i)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Hamlet and Ophelia
Daniel Maclise: The Play Scene in "Hamlet"
Eric Gill: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Anonymous illustration of Edwin Booth's Hamlet
Penny Postcard, c. 1900
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Evangeline Booth: To Be or Not To Be, That
Is the Question
Pierre Vadeboncoeur: To Be or Not To Be:
That Is the Question
Clifford Smyth: "To Be or Not To Be, That
Is the Question"...for Ulster
Henry J. Jordan: "To Be or Not To Be,"
Happiness or Misery? "That Is the
Question." Being Four Lectures on the
Functions and Disorders of the
Nervous System and the Reproductive Organs
Eileen Farrell: To Be or Not To Be: The
Question of Parenthood
Duncan Williams: To Be or Not To Be: A
Question of Survival
Claudia de Lys: To Be or Not To Be a Virgin
Marie Irish: To Be or Not To Be Married
Rienk Bouke Kuiper: To Be or Not to Be Reformed
Gene W. Marshall: To Be or Not To Be a
Christian: Meditations and Essays on
Authentic Christian Community
Ben Freedman: To Be or Not To Be
Human: The Traits of Human Nature
Yuri Glazov: To Be or Not To Be in the
Party: Communist Party Membership in the USSR
Christine Beazley: To Be...or Not To Be?:
Pros and Cons of Abortion
Ben B. Boothe: To Be, or Not To Be, an
SOB: Reaffirmation of Business Ethics
D. David Bourland, Jr., ed.: To Be or Not:
An E-Prime Anthology
Paul Johnston, ed.: More E-Prime: To Be
or Not 2
Leo Workman: To Be or Not To Be Bop
Douglas Lloyd: Chemistry of Conjugated
Cyclic Compounds: To Be or Not To
Be Like Benzene?
Marcus Binney: Country House: To Be or
Not To Be
Henry Kane: To Die or Not To Die
Arthur S. Berger & Joyce Berger, eds.: To
Die or Not to Die
William L. Clay: To Kill or Not To Kill
Stella Tagnin: "To Do" or "To Make,"
That's the Question
David Lloyd George: Slings and Arrows
Barbara Goolden: Slings and Arrows
Edwin Francis Edgett: Slings and Arrows
Hugh Conway: Slings and Arrows
Carlton Dawe: Slings and Arrows
George B. Perry: Slings and Arrows: Tales,
Sketches and Verses, Grave and Gay
F. J. Fargus: Slings and Arrows and Other
Tales
Jerome D. Levin: Slings and Arrows:
Narcissitic Injury and Its Treatment
Robert Lewis: Slings and Arrows: Theater
in My Life
Stuart Engstrand: The Sling and the Arrow
Rose Franken: Outrageous Fortune
Edgar Fawcett: Outrageous Fortune
Susan Kelly: Outrageous Fortune
Meredith MacHin: Outrageous Fortune
Cherry Vooght: Outrageous Fortune
David Leslie Murray: Outrageous Fortune
Ben Travers: Outrageous Fortune
Mary Elmblad: Outrageous Fortune
Elizabeth Ford: Outrageous Fortune
M. L. Machin: Outrageous Fortune
Huia Mase: Outrageous Fortune
Olav Lokse: Outrageous Fortune
Patricia Wentworth: Outrageous Fortune
Mary Emblod: Outrageous Fortune
Tim Scott: Outrageous Fortune
Claudia Slack: Outrageous Fortune
Michael Burke: Outrageous Good Fortune
Roger Keyes: Outrageous Fortune: The
Tragedy of Leopold III of the Belgians --
The Scapegoat Who Saved the British from Defeat
John Pearson: Painfully Rich: The
Outrageous Fortune and Misfortunes
of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty
Maria McGuire: To Take Arms: A Year in
the Provisional IRA
Barry Buzan: A Sea of Troubles?: Sources
of Dispute in the New Ocean Regime
Margaret Duras: A Sea of Troubles
Anthony Ireland: A Sea of Troubles
Joseph J. McCoy: A Sea of Troubles
Janet L. Smith: Sea of Troubles
Richard G. Stern: Natural Shocks
Lincoln Kirstein: Flesh Is Heir
Ross Angel: To Sleep No More
Dinah Lampitt: To Sleep No More
L. V. Sims: To Sleep, Perchance To Kill
Ursula Bloom: Perchance To Dream
Chloe Gartner: Perchance To Dream
Damon Knight, ed.: Perchance To Dream
Kathleen Korbel: Perchance To Dream
Mary Luytens: Perchance To Dream
Ivar Novello: Perchance To Dream
Robert B. Parker: Perchance To Dream
Colleen Mariah Rae: Perchance To Dream
Joyce Lee: Perchance To Dream
Robert C. Brown: Perchance To Dream:
The Patient's Guide to Anesthesia
Milo Manara: Perchance To Dream: The
Indian Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman
M. A. Reeves: Perchance To Dream: A
Collection of Poems by M. A. Reeves
Richard Rose: Perchance To Dream: The
World of Ivor Novello
Maura Segar: Perchance To Dream
Natalie Shipman: Perchance To Dream
Emily H. Stevens: Perchance To Dream
Howard Weinstein: Perchance To Dream
Anne Morice: Sleep of Death
Richard Peck: Blossom Culp and the Sleep
of Death
Gertrude Atherton: What Dreams May
Come
Cynthia Asquith: What Dreams May Come
Kay Hooper: What Dreams May Come
Richard Matheson: What Dreams May Come
Junerwanda Michaels: What Dreams May Come
Florence Nevill: What Dreams May Come
Manly Wade Wellman: What Dreams May Come
Cynthia Asquith: This Mortal Coil
Russell T. Sharpe: This Mortal Coil
Grant Allen: This Mortal Coil
J. Russell Warren: This Mortal Coil
D. H. Lawrence: The Mortal Coil and Other
Stories
Kenneth Vaux: The Mortal Coil: The
Meaning of Health and Disease
Aldous Huxley: Mortal Coils
Peter Van Greenaway: The Immortal Coil
Arabella Kenealy: The Whips of Time
Norman Giles: The Whips of Time
David Wong Louie: Pangs of Love: Stories
Wendell Compton: Pangs of Puppy-Love
and Other Poems
Sara Woods: The Law's Delay
John Odams: The Law's Delay: A Country
Comedy in One Act
W. B. Northrop: The Insolence of Office
Margaret Escott: Insolence of Office
Caroline Cox & John Marks: Insolence of
Office
Cyril Hare: With a Bare Bodkin
Francis Gerard: Bare Bodkin
Edward Geoffrey Parrinder: Something After
Death?
J. M. Dillard: The Undiscovered Country
Georges Duquette: The Undiscovered Country
Eknath Easwaran: The Undiscovered Country:
Exploring the Promise of Death
Charles S. Harrison: The Undiscovered Country
John Hay: The Undiscovered Country
William Dean Howells: The Undiscovered Country
David Farnleigh: Undiscovered Country
Stephen Jenkins: The Undiscovered
Country: Adventures into Other Dimensions
Raymond Baughan: Undiscovered Country:
Morning Thoughts To Brace the Spirit of the Common Man
Katherine Mansfield: Undiscovered Country:
The New Zealand Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Stephen McKenna: The Undiscovered Country
Julian Mitchell: The Undiscovered Country
Ron Rhodes: The Undiscovered Country
Arthur Schnitzler: The Undiscovered Country
Jay Walz: The Undiscovered Country
Gaius Glenn Atkins: The Undiscovered
Country and Other Addresses
Harold Bayley, ed.: The Undiscovered
Country: A Sequence of Spirit-messages Describing Death and
the After-world
Katherine Hulme: Undiscovered Country
in Search of Gurdjieff
Robert C. Broderick: Heaven, the
Undiscovered Country
Allen Josephs: For Whom the Bell Tolls:
Ernest Hemingway's Undiscovered Country
Howard Murphet: Beyond Death: The
Undiscovered Country
Tom Stoppard: Dalliance and
Undiscovered Country
Robert Barr: From Whose Bourne
Luke Sharpe: From Whose Bourne
James Wallerstein: No Traveller Returns
John Collier: No Traveller Returns
Amber Dean: No Traveller Returns
Delano L. Ames: No Traveller Returns
Vera Jervis: No Traveller Returns
Joseph Auslander: No Traveller Returns
James Lord: No Traveler Returns
Henry Shoskes: No Traveler Returns
Richard Howard: No Traveller: Poems
Winifred Ashton: A Traveller Returns
David Christie Murray & Henry Herman:
One Traveller Returns
Edward Dearden Carter: 'Pale Cast...':
Poems and Illustrations
Elmer Hankes: Enterprises of Great Pith
and Moment: A Proposal for a Universal Second Language
Graham Greene: The Name of Action
John Fraser: The Name of Action
Victor Churchill: All My Sins Remembered
Elaine Barrymore: All My Sins Remembered
Rosie Thomas: All My Sins Remembered
Joe Haldeman: All My Sins Remembered
Wilfred Ruprecht Bion: All My Sins
Remembered: Another Part of a
Life and the Other Side of Genius
Norbert Estey: All My Sins
W. S. Penn: All My Sins Are Relatives
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Get thee to a nunnery; why wouldst thou be a
breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent
honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things
that it were better my mother had not borne me.
(III,i)
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Richard Lederer: Get Thee to a Punnery
Frank Ernest Halliday: Indifferent Honest and
Other Plays
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If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this
plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as
ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape
calumny. (III,i)
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Mrs. M. C. Despard: Chaste As Ice, Pure
As Snow
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O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
. . .
The glass of fashion and the mold of form
. . .
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and
harsh. (III,i)
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Cecil Beaton: The Glass of Fashion
Ira Morris: The Glass of Fashion
Sydney Grundy: The Glass of Fashion: An
Original Comedy in Four Acts
Harold Begbie: The Glass of Fashion: Some
Social Reflections
Constance Harrison: Sweet Bells Out of Tune
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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it
to you, trippingly on the tongue.
. . .
Suit the action to the word, the word to the
action; with this special observance, that you
o'er step not the modesty of nature: for any
thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing,
whose end, both at the first and now, was and
is to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.
(III,ii)
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Barrett Clark: Speak the Speech
Harry Heltman: Trippingly on the Tongue:
How To Teach Distinctness in Speech
Bella Womack: Suit the Action to the Word
B. A. Young: The Mirror Up to Nature: A
Review of the Theatre 1964 - 1982
Karelisa Hartigan: To Hold a Mirror to
Nature: Dramatic Images and Reflections
Peter Knudtson: A Mirror to Nature:
Reflections on Science, Scientists, and Society
Rose A. Zimbardo: A Mirror to Nature:
Transformations in Drama and Aesthetics, 1660 - 1732
Orley I. Holtan: Introduction to Theatre:
A Mirror to Nature
Vicki L. Heltunen: A Mirror unto Nature:
The Printed Art of Natural History
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Give me that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core. (III,ii)
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Richard King: Passion's Slave
Alexis Hill: Passion's Slave
Kay McMahon: Passion's Slave
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Hamlet. Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
Ophelia. No, my lord.
Hamlet. I mean, my head in your lap.
Ophelia. Ay, my lord.
Hamlet. Did you think I meant country matters?
(III,ii)
Eugène Delacroix: Hamlet
Comes upon the King at Prayer
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Jo Northrop: Country Matters
Phil Drabble: Country Matters
Fred Basnett: Country Matters
Clare Leighton: Country Matters
Ian Niall: Country Matters
Duff Harte-Davis: Country Matters
Duff Harte-Davis: Further Country Matters
Barbara Webster, ed.: Country Matters, an Anthology
Peter Mullen: Country Matters: Further
Tales of a Country Parson
Vance Bourjaily: Country Matters:
Collected Reports from the Fields and Streams of Iowa
W. H. Graham: Greenbank Country
Matters in 19th Century Ontario
Daniel Hoffman: Faulkner's Country
Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknopatawpha
John Adlard: The Sports of Cruelty:
Fairies, Folk-songs, Charms and Other Country Matters
in the Work of William Blake
John Hollander: Town & Country Matters:
Erotica & Satirica
William Cobbett: Cobbett's Country Book:
An Anthology of William Cobbett's
Writings on Country Matters
Fred Archer: The Countryman Cottage
Life Book (Country Matters)
Margaret Baker: Folklore and Customs of
Rural England (Country Matters)
Roger Burrows: Wild Fox: A Complete
Study of the Red Fox (Country Matters)
Roy Barette: Countryman's Bed-Book:
More Observations on Country Matters from Amen Farm
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
(III,ii)
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Guy Endore: Methinks the Lady --
Wendy Sanders: Asides: Me Thinks the Lady
Doth Protest Too Much
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King. Have you heard the argument? Is there no
offence in't?
Hamlet. No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest; no
offence i' the world.
King. What do you call the play?
Hamlet. The Mouse-trap. (III,ii)
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John Dickson Carr: Poison in Jest
Agatha Christie: The Mousetrap
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For some must watch, while some must sleep;
So runs the world away. (III,ii)
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William C. Dement: Some Must Watch While
Some Must Sleep
E. L. White: Some Must Watch
Frederick Davis: Some Must Watch
Edwin Daly: Some Must Watch
Ethel White: Some Must Watch
Belton Cobb: Some Must Watch
Stephen Ransome: Some Must Watch
Anna Steele: So Runs the World Away
Edith Dickinson: So Runs the World Away
Henryk Sienkiewicz: So Runs the World
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Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers --
if the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me --
with two Provincial roses on my razed shoes,
get me a fellowship in a cry of players, sir?
(III,ii)
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Margaret Hoffmann: A Forest of Feathers
Margaret Jowett: A Cry of Players
William Gibson: A Cry of Players
Joan Howes: A Cry of Players
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Hamlet. Do you see yonder cloud that's
almost in
shape of a camel?
Polonius. By the mass, and 'tis like a camel,
indeed.
Hamlet. Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius. It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet. Or like a whale?
Polonius. Very like a whale. (III,ii)
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Ferdinand Mount: Very Like a Whale
John Osborne: Very Like a Whale
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How now! a rat! Dead, for a ducat, dead!
(III,iv)
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Leo Bruce: Dead for a Ducat
Laurence Payne: Dead for a Ducat
Helen Reilly: Dead for a Ducat
Rupert Croft-Cooke: Dead for a Ducat
Simon Shaw: Dead for a Ducat
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'Tis now the very witching time of night
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world: now could I drink
hot blood,
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on.
. . .
I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
(III,ii)
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Fayrene Preston: The Witching Time
John William De Forest: Witching Times
Henry Norman: The Witching Time: Tales for
the Year's End
Augustus Thomas: The Witching Hour
Florence Stevenson: The Witching Hour
Rona Randall: The Witching Hour
Lee Bennett Hopkins: Witching Time:
Mischievous Stories and Poems
Cynthia Asquith: When Churchyards Yawn:
Fifteen New Ghost Stories
John Lodwick: Contagion to This World
Ken Englade: Hot Blood: The Money, the
Brach Heiress, and the Horse Murders
Eleanor Hibbert: Such Bitter Business
Gini Hartzmark: Bitter Business
Rosemary Edghill: Speak Daggers to Her
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The cease of majesty
Dies not alone; but, like a gulf, doth draw
What's near it with it. (III,iii)
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Max Reese: The Cease of Majesty
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Behind the arras I'll convey myself,
To hear the process. (III,iii)
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Claire Irwin: Behind the Arras
Constance Neville: Behind the Arras
Bliss Carman: Behind the Arras: A Book of
the Unseen
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O! my offense is rank, it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon't;
A brother's murder.
. . .
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow?
. . .
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
(III,ii)
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Honor Matthews: The Primal Curse: The
Myth of Cain and Abel in the Theatre
Richard Faber: A Brother's Murder: Lees
Court, Sheldwich, 1655
Isabella Mayo: White As Snow
Virginia Koste: White As Snow
Edward Ruscha: Words without Thought
Never to Heaven Go
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Look here, upon this picture, and on this,
The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. (III,iv)
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Norbert Lynton: Look Here upon This
Picture -- and on This -- : A Personal
Selection from the Towner Art Collection
William Dean Howells: A Counterfeit Presentment
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You cannot call it love, for at your age
The heyday in the blood is tame.
. . .
O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,
If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,
To flaming youth let virtue be as was,
And melt in her own fire. (III,iv)
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Geraint Goodwin: The Heyday in the Blood
Benjamin Church: An Address to a Provincial
Bashaw: O Shame! Where Is Thy Blush?
Warner Fabian: Flaming Youth
Samuel Hopkins Adams: Flaming Youth
Stephen H. Norwood: Labor's Flaming
Youth: Telephone Operators and
Worker Militancy, 1878 - 1923
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A king of shreds and patches -- (III,iv)
Henry Fuseli: Gertrude, Hamlet, and
the Apparition
of Hamlet's Father
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Mabel Constanduros: Shreds and Patches
Laura Andress: Shreds and Patches
Reginald Rankin: A Thing of Shreds and Patches
Ira Wilson: Shreds and Patches from Gilbert
and Sullivan
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I must be cruel, only to be kind. (III,iv)
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Hermann Vezin: Cruel To Be Kind
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