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William Shakespeare's play Hamlet has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous "To be, or not to be" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Some also occur elsewhere (e.g. in the Bible) or are proverbial. All quotations are second quarto except as noted:
The title page of Hamlet Q2 (1604), the only early source for the speech. Hamlet exists in several early versions: the first quarto edition (Q1, 1603), the second quarto (Q2, 1604), and the First Folio (F, 1623). [b] Q1 and F do not contain this speech, although both include a form of The Closet Scene, so the 1604 Q2 is the only early source ...
"To be, or not to be" is a speech given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "nunnery scene" of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 1). The speech is named for the opening phrase, itself among the most widely known and quoted lines in modern English literature, and has been referenced in many works of theatre, literature and music.
is a phrase within a monologue by Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Hamlet is reflecting, at first admiringly, and then despairingly, on the human condition. The speech is recited at the end of the film Withnail and I and the text was set to music by Galt MacDermot for the rock opera Hair
Even from a few feet away, it looked different from the other books in the library, and I gave him a puzzled look as I headed over, wandering away from a dusty copy of Hamlet. Exasperated, he ...
In Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern always appear as a pair, except in editions following the First Folio text, where Guildenstern enters four lines after Rosencrantz in Act IV, Scene 3. [ 1 ] The two courtiers first appear in Act II , Scene 2, where they attempt to place themselves in the confidence of Prince Hamlet , their childhood friend.
'Carterpuri', or the 'Village of Carter', is a dusty hamlet about 20 miles (32 km) outside Delhi, which was called Daulatpur Nasirabad, wh Indian village that changed its name to honour Jimmy ...
"The rest is silence", the last words of Prince Hamlet in Shakespeare's play Hamlet "The rest is silence!—silence and joy for those who had endured so much suffering, yet found at last a great and lasting happiness." (Chapter XXXI "The Escape," The Scarlet Pimpernel, p. 223. Baroness Orczy, 1905) The Rest Is Silence, 1944 play by Harold Purcell