John Bunny, Motion Picture Comedian

In which he is remembered in similitude, by reference to Yorick,
the king’s jester, who died when Hamlet and Ophelia were children.

Yorick is dead. Boy Hamlet walks forlorn
Beneath the battlements of Elsinore.
Where are those oddities and capers now
That used to “set the table on a roar”?

And do his bauble-bells beyond the clouds
Ring out, and shake with mirth the planets bright?
No doubt he brings the blessed dead good cheer,
But silence broods on Elsinore tonight.

That little elf, Ophelia, eight years old,
Upon her battered doll’s staunch bosom weeps.
(”O best of men, that wove glad fairy-tales.”)
With tear-burned face, at last the darling sleeps.

Hamlet himself could not give cheer or help,

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Hamlet: What warlike noise is this?
Osric: Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,
To th' ambassadors of England gives
This warlike volley.

classic lines from the play Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.

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Epitaphs For Two Players

I. EDWIN BOOTH

An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a barnstormer in California. There were few theatres, but the hotels were provided with crude assembly rooms for strolling players.

The youth played in the blear hotel.
The rafters gleamed with glories strange.
And winds of mourning Elsinore
Howling at chance and fate and change;
Voices of old Europe's dead
Disturbed the new-built cattle-shed,
The street, the high and solemn range.

The while the coyote barked afar
All shadowy was the battlement.
The ranch-boys huddled and grew pale,
Youths who had come on riot bent.
Forgot were pranks well-planned to sting.
Behold there rose a ghostly king,
And veils of smoking Hell were rent.

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Hamlet: Hic et ubique? then we'll shift our ground. Come hither, gentlemen, and lay your hands again upon my sword. Never to speak of this that you have heard, swear by my sword.

classic line from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness.

classic line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

quote by Tom Masson
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What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

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Hamlet: To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil.

classic line from the play Hamlet, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Why should the poor be flatter’d?
No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning.

classic line from the play Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.

line from the play Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Queen Gertrude: And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish
That your good beauties be the happy cause
Of Hamlet's wildness: so shall I hope your virtues
Will bring him to his wonted way again,
To both your honours.

classic lines from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: You cannot call it love, for at your age
The hey-day in the blood is tame, it’s humble,
And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment
Would step from this to this?

classic lines from the play Hamlet, Act III, Scene 4, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Polonius: My honourable Lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you.
Hamlet: You cannot, Sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal, except my life, my life.

classic lines from the play Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

quote by Kenneth Branagh
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Hamlet: I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.

line from the play Hamlet, Act III, Scene 4, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

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Hamlet: There are more things in heaven and earth Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

line from Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Hamlet: Madam, how like you this play?
Gertrude: The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

lines from the play Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Not a whit Horatio; we defy augury; 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; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is’t to leave betimes? Let be.

famous lines from the play Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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