Hamlet: Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats will not debate the question of this straw.

classic line from Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 4 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Ophelia: You are keen my lord, you are keen.
Hamlet: It would cost you a groaning to take off mine edge.

classic lines from Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord.
Hamlet: I am glad of it. A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

classic lines from Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

classic line from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the king’s mess.

classic line from the play Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her?

classic line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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The Tragedy Of Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark!

I write with sorrow -real and stark-
'The Tragedy Of Hamlet Prince Of Denmark'

Like Othello, The Tempest and king Lear
It's a marvel by the pen of Shakespeare

Who paints the perils of his life...
Stretched by caution, crushed by strife

He cries for the matters of the Prince
Laden with sorrows, full of sufferings

Caused by the death of Hamlet, the king
Whose love was the song he used to sing.

His mother, the queen named Gertrude
Was frail n fickle but not so rude...

Again she married Claudius, the rake,
Her brother-in-law for passions sake;

[...] Read more

poem by Shahzia Batool
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Queen Gertrude: O, what a rash and bloody deed is this!
Hamlet: A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king, and marry with his brother.

classic lines from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 4 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

classic lines from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o’er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?

classic line from Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: O good Horatio, what a wounded name, things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!

classic line from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.

classic line from Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, drink off this potion. Is thy union here? Follow my mother.

classic line from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact.

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You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

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Surroundings-34

Street Hamlet-sestet-three worded each line

Sorrow is trailed
Along the street
A Hamlet soliloquising
With bagful tears
Pity, cluttered street
Still more done

poem by Indira Renganathan
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Hamlet: Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew.

classic line from the play Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I thank you: and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.

classic lines from the play Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

classic line from the play Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

line from the play Hamlet, Act III, Scene 4, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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