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  2. What a piece of work is a man - Wikipedia

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    By the 1604 Second Quarto, the speech is essentially present but punctuated differently: What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god! Then, by the 1623 First Folio, it appeared as:

  3. Hamlet (1948 film) - Wikipedia

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    Box office. $3,250,000 (US rentals) [4][5] or £1,352,200 [3] Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare 's play of the same name, adapted and directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director and the second of the three Shakespeare films that he directed (the 1936 As You Like It had ...

  4. King Claudius - Wikipedia

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    King Claudius. Russian actor Nikolai Massalitinov as Claudius with Olga Knipper as Gertrude in the Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet (1911–1912). King Claudius is a fictional character and the main antagonist of William Shakespeare 's tragedy Hamlet. He is the brother to King Hamlet, second husband to Gertrude and uncle and later ...

  5. To be, or not to be - Wikipedia

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    To be, or not to be. Comparison of the "To be, or not to be" speech in the first three editions of Hamlet, showing the varying quality of the text in the Bad Quarto, the Good Quarto and the First Folio. " 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).

  6. Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    Hamlet. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to Hamlet (/ ˈhæmlɪt /), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's ...

  7. Hamlet on screen - Wikipedia

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    Over fifty films of William Shakespeare's Hamlet have been made since 1900. [1] Seven post-war Hamlet films have had a theatrical release: Laurence Olivier's Hamlet of 1948; Grigori Kozintsev's 1964 Russian adaptation; a film of the John Gielgud-directed 1964 Broadway production, Richard Burton's Hamlet, which played limited engagements that same year; Tony Richardson's 1969 version (the first ...

  8. The lady doth protest too much, methinks - Wikipedia

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    The Queen in "Hamlet" by Edwin Austin Abbey "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" is a line from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare.It is spoken by Queen Gertrude in response to the insincere overacting of a character in the play within a play created by Prince Hamlet to elicit evidence of his uncle's guilt in the murder of his father, the King of Denmark.

  9. Hoist with his own petard - Wikipedia

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    Hamlet stabs Polonius through the curtain he is hiding behind as Queen Gertrude looks on, as part of The Closet Scene in Hamlet act 3, scene 4. [5] The phrase occurs in Hamlet act 3, scene 4, [6] as a part of one of Hamlet's speeches in the Closet Scene. [a] Hamlet has been acting mad to throw off suspicion that he is aware that his uncle ...