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Prince Hamlet
Prince Hamlet is a fictional character, the protagonist in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. He is the Prince of Denmark, nephew to the usurping Claudius and son of the previous King of Denmark, Old Hamlet. Throughout the play he struggles with whether, and how, to avenge the murder of his father, and...
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Filter this CollectionGod had given you one face, and you make yourself another.
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To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.
"To be or not to be, that is the question.Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortuneOr to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them?" -- From Hamlet (III, i, 56-61)
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The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns.
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What a piece of work is a 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 -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
The phrase "What a piece of work is a man!" comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act II, scene II, and it is often used in reference to the whole speech containing the line.
The monologue, spoken in the play by Prince Hamlet to...