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(Allusion to character in the graveyard scene
-- V,i)
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Barbara Paul: First Gravedigger
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There is no ancient gentleman but
gardners, ditchers, and grave makers;
they hold up Adam's profession. (V,i)
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Julian R. Meade: Adam's Profession and Its
Conquest by Eve
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Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio;
a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent
fancy. . . Where be your gibes now?
your gambols? your songs? your flashes of
merriment, that were wont to set the table
on a roar? (V,i)
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Beggarstaff Poster
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Alfred Hoyt Bill: Alas, Poor Yorick: Being
Three Hitherto Unrecorded Adventures
in the Life of the Reverend Laurence Sterne
Frederick C. Davis: Poor, Poor Yorick
Joan Fleming: Alas, Poor Father
Thomas Yoseloff: A Fellow of Infinite Jest
Florence Barber: Fellow of Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
Paul Barolsky: Infinite Jest: Wit and Humor
in Italian Renaissance Art
Robert Silverberg, comp.: Infinite Jests: The
Lighter Side of Science Fiction
Lester S. Levy: Flashes of Merriment: A
Century of Humorous Songs in America 1805-1905
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I tell thee, churlish priest,
A ministering angel shall my sister be,
When thou liest howling. (V,i)
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Georgiana Dickens: A Ministering Angel
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Sweets to the sweet: farewell!
I hoped thou shouldst have been my
Hamlet's wife. (V,i)
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Joan Shapiro: Sweets to the Sweet
Jeanne Grant: Sweets to the Sweet
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The cat will mew and dog will have his day.
(V,i)
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Frederick Jackson: The Cat Will Mew
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There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Roughhew them how we will -- (V,ii)
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Marie Phillips: There's a Divinity
Francis Meehan: There's a Divinity
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There's a special providence in the fall of a
sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it
be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now,
yet it will come: the readiness is all.

Eugène Delacroix:
Hamlet, Horatio, and the
Gravediggers
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Jean MacGibbon: A Special Providence
Richard Yates: A Special Providence
Nigel Balchin: The Fall of a Sparrow
Salim Ali: The Fall of a Sparrow
Val Henry Gielgud: Fall of a Sparrow: The
Story of an Adventure
Kent L. Koppelman: The Fall of a Sparrow:
Of Death and Dreams and Healing
Caroline Chesbro: The Sparrow's Fall
Fred Bodsworth: The Sparrow's Fall
Terry Lane: Sparrows Fall
Mary Kevin O'Rourke: No Sparrow Shall Fall
Janet Green: Not a Sparrow Shall Fall:
Study of the Terminally-Ill Child
George Philip Griggs: The Readiness Is All
Satya Dev Jaggi: Readiness Is All and
Other Poems
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O good Horatio, what a wounded name,
Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me! (V,ii)
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Charles King: A Wounded Name
Dorothy Kathleen Broster: The Wounded Name
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The rest is silence. (V,ii)


Eugène Delacroix:
The Death of Hamlet
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Virginia Coffman: The Rest Is Silence
Claude Jasmin: Rest Is Silence
Frederick May: The Rest Is Silence
Augusto Monterroso: The Rest Is Silence
Svetlana Gaiser-Shnitman: The Rest Is Silence
Carel Sharten: The Rest Is Silence
Augusto Monterroso: The Rest Is Silence
Erico Verissimo: The Rest Is Silence
Robert N. Watson: The Rest Is Silence:
Death as Annihilation in the English Renaissance
Frederick May: The Rest Is Silence: A
Dramatisation of the Short Story, Sgombero,
by Luigi Pirandello
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Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet
prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
(V,ii)
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Carole Berry: Good Night, Sweet Prince
Alan Hunter: Goodnight, Sweet Prince
Gene Fowler: Good Night, Sweet Prince: The
Life and Times of John Barrymore
Stobie Piel: Flights of Angels
Billy Graham et alia: Flights of
Angels
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The ears are senseless that should give us hearing,
To tell him his commandment is fulfilled,
That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
(V,ii)
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Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Are Dead
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So shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
Of deaths put on by cunning and forcéd cause,
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fall'n on the inventors' heads. (V,ii)

Final scene: Gordon Craig design for
the Moscow Art Theatre, 1911
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Dylan Jones: Unnatural Acts
Susan Shellogg: Unnatural Acts
Marg Yeo: Unnatural Acts
Roger Karshner: Unnatural Acts
Lucy Taylor: Unnatural Acts and Other Stories
Donald Barthelme: Unspeakable Practices,
Unnatural Acts
Eugene Schoenfeld: Dr. Hip's Natural Food
and Unnatural Acts
Margaret Nielsen: Ecstatic Visions and
Unnatural Acts
Vincent A. Palazzo: Monkeyshines...and
Other Unnatural Acts
Susan Leigh Foster, ed.: Choreographing
History (Unnatural Acts: Theorizing
the Performative)
Sue-Ellen Case, ed.: Cruising the
Performative: Interventions into the
Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality,
and Sexuality (Unnatural Acts)
Judith Halberstam, ed.: Posthuman Bodies
(Unnatural Acts)
Harry B. Demaio: Information Protection
and Other Unnatural Acts: Every
Manager's Guide to Keeping Vital
Computer Data Safe and Sound
Virginia Hanson: Casual Slaughters
James R. Spittal: Casual Slaughters
Robert A. Carter: Casual Slaughters
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