"to Be"" offers the reader the option to play as one of three characters: Hamlet, Ophelia, or Hamlet Sr., King of Denmark. From there the story branches frequently, with some options following the course of the original play and others providing the choice to give up on the quest to kill King Claudius, or to follow other pursuits (Ophelia, for example, is a keen scientist who can invent indoor heating, and King Hamlet, as a ghost, can choose to explore the ocean floor or tame the ghosts of dinosaurs). The choices that follow Shakespeare's play are marked with little ""Yorick"
"Guildenstern tell the Queen that they will have Hamlet play a leading part in some court theatricals to distract him. Hamlet enters, and she begs them to prevent him from soliloquising. Hamlet begins, ""To be – or not to be,"" but they interrupt him, turning the soliloquy into a trio, and urging him to commit suicide. Hamlet responds: ""It must be patent to the merest dunce/Three persons can't soliloquize at once!"" Ophelia is terrified by the ghosts from ""five thousand plays"" that haunt her father's study, ""chattering forth the scenes [that her] poor father wisely had cut out."" But she"
"whether suicide is legitimate and forgivable according to religious law. This is not the first time, however, that this question has been raised in the play. Hamlet has the very same discussion with himself during his ""To be, or not to be"" soliloquy in Act 3 scene 1. The characters in Act 5 scene 1 approach the topic this time with dark comedy, and in doing so bring up an entirely different theme. The parody of legal jargon used by the pair of clowns continues the theme of the corruption of politics, as seen in the usurpation of the throne"
"To Be or Not to Be (play) To Be or Not to Be is a play written by Nick Whitby, based on the 1942 film ""To Be or Not to Be"". The play, described as a ""black comedy"" was produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club, and ran on Broadway in 2008. The time is 1939, the place is Warsaw, Poland. A theater troupe run by Josef and Maria Tura is involved in pre-war problems. Josef and Maria help catch a spy, with the aid of Stanislaw Sobinskya, a handsome fighter pilot. Stanislaw has a romantic yearning for Maria. ""To Be"
"the poet, who is crying because he will never be a writer. Bugs finds out that he is not William Shakespeare, but is actually called Sam Crubish. The witch hears this and it appears that the two know each other but have not seen each other in a while because Crubish had the wrong apartment number (2B). Sam and Witch Hazel leave talking about who made the mistake of saying ""2B"" and the cartoon closes with Bugs Bunny quoting the famous line from ""Hamlet"" - ""To be, or not to be-that is the question."" A Witch's Tangled Hare A Witch's"
"apparent ontological paradox by inspiring Shakespeare to borrow phrases that the Doctor quotes from his plays. Examples of this include the Doctor telling Shakespeare that ""all the world's a stage"" (from ""As You Like It"") and ""the play's the thing"" (from ""Hamlet""), as well as the name Sycorax from ""The Tempest"". However, when Shakespeare himself coins the phrase ""To be, or not to be"", the Doctor suggests he write it down, but Shakespeare considers it ""too pretentious"". In a different version of the joke, the Doctor exclaims ""Once more unto the breach"", and Shakespeare initially likes the phrase, before realising"
"Soliloquy A soliloquy (from Latin ""solo"" ""to oneself"" + ""loquor"" ""I talk"") is a device often used in drama when a character speaks to him- or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience, giving off the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections. If other characters are present, they keep silent and/or are disregarded by the speaker. Though it should be said that sometimes, depending on the performance, a monologue that is written as a soliloquy, will be addressed directly to the audience. And sometimes it is hard to tell if what is being"
"""Which is the most reasonable, and does his duty best: he who stands aloof from the struggle of life, calmly contemplating it, or he who descends to the ground, and takes his part in the contest?"" The character of Bobby Gould finds himself on both sides of this dilemma, and at times in the play he ""stands aloof,"" and at other times he ""takes part"" in life's contest, with its moral strictures. The play begins in the office of Bobby Gould, who has recently been promoted to head of production at a major Hollywood studio. His job is to find"
"producer; Detective Coleridge, an amateur actor, provokes a confession by creating fake video evidence of the producer's rehearsal murders. The housemates: The television crew: The police: Elton makes references in this novel to both Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth. David, the actor, has the first four lines of Hamlet's soliloquy ""To be, or not to be"" tattoed around his ankle. This allows both Kelly and the police officers to identify him as a porn star who starred in a movie in which Kelly was an extra. This threatens his reputation, as he wishes to become a serious actor again. Inspector Coleridge"
"characters who are actors performing those texts, within a wider non-Shakespearean story. ""Hamlet"" and ""Romeo and Juliet"" are the two plays which have most often been used in this way. Usually, Shakespeare's story has some parallel or resonance with the main plot. In the 1933 Katharine Hepburn film ""Morning Glory"", for which she won her first Best Actress Academy Award, Hepburn's character Eva Lovelace becomes slightly drunk at a party and very effectively begins to recite ""To be or not to be"", when she is rudely interrupted. In James Whale's 1937 fictional biopic ""The Great Garrick"", Brian Aherne, as David"
"""The Merchant of Venice"". His play ""Shylock"", first performed at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in December 1889, had incidental music by the French composer Gabriel Fauré, later incorporated into an orchestral suite of the same name. Ralph Vaughan Williams' choral work ""Serenade to Music"" (1938) draws its text from the discussion about music and the music of the spheres in Act V, scene 1. In both versions of the comic film ""To Be or Not to Be"" (1942 and 1983) the character ""Greenberg"", specified as a Jew in the later version, gives a recitation of the ""Hath Not a Jew"
"reacts in a grand septet with chorus. ""Closet Scene"" In the Queen's chambers Hamlet delivers the monologue ""To be or not to be"", then hides behind a tapestry. Claudius enters and prays aloud of his remorse. Hamlet, deciding Claudius' soul may be saved, if he is killed while praying, delays yet again. Polonius enters and in his conversation with Claudius reveals his own complicity. The King and Polonius leave, Hamlet emerges, and Gertrude enters with Ophélie. The Queen tries to persuade Hamlet to marry Ophélie, but Hamlet, realizing he can no longer marry the daughter of the guilty Polonius, refuses."
"play, the focus is drawn to his inner thoughts and feelings about succumbing to the devil. The soliloquies also have parallel concepts. In the introductory soliloquy, Faustus begins by pondering the fate of his life and what he wants his career to be. He ends his soliloquy with the solution and decision to give his soul to the devil. Similarly in the closing soliloquy, Faustus begins pondering, and finally comes to terms with the fate he created for himself. Frey also explains: ""The whole pattern of this final soliloquy is thus a grim parody of the opening one, where decision"
"Merely Players Merely Players was a one-man stage show written and performed by Barry Morse. It examined the lives of a series of actors and others from Elizabethan times up to present day. The title is derived from lines by William Shakespeare in his play ""As You Like It"": ""All the world's a stage,""<BR> ""and all the men and women merely players:""<BR> ""They have their exits and their entrances;""<BR> ""and one man in his time plays many parts.""<BR> The two-act drama included several vignettes from the life and career of ""mere player"" Barry Morse, features over a dozen characters (three"
"on the chronology of history. In Letter 18, Voltaire talks about British tragedy, specifically in the hands of William Shakespeare. Voltaire presents his readers with the famous ""To be, or not to be"" soliloquy in ""Hamlet"" along with a translation into French rhyming verse. He also cites a passage from John Dryden and gives a translation. In Letter 19, Voltaire addresses British comedy, citing William Wycherley, John Vanbrugh, and William Congreve. Letter 20 speaks briefly of the ""belles lettres"" of the nobility, including the Earl of Rochester and Edmund Waller. Letter 22 references the poetry of Jonathan Swift and Alexander"
"What a piece of work is a man ""What a piece of work is man!"" is a phrase within a soliloquy by Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Hamlet is reflecting, at first admiringly, and then despairingly, on the human condition. The soliloquy, spoken in the play by Prince Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Act II, Scene 2, follows in its entirety. Rather than appearing in blank verse, the typical mode of composition of Shakespeare's plays, the speech appears in straight prose: Hamlet is saying that although humans may appear to think and act ""nobly"""
"Hoping to change Mr. Hecuba's mind, Gilligan suggests that they perform a play for Mr. Hecuba so that he might reconsider Ginger's talent and ultimately decide to use her in a movie. From the limited resources available on the island, they create a musical version of William Shakespeare's ""Hamlet."" The cast performs three songs for their show. These parody the ""To be or not to be"" speech of Act III, Scene 1; the ""Get thee to a nunnery"" exchange between Hamlet and Ophelia later in the same scene, and Polonius's ""Neither a borrower nor a lender be"" speech from Act"
"it appears that the two know each other, but have not seen each other in a while because Crubish had the wrong apartment number 2B. The poet and Witch Hazel leave talking about who made the mistake of saying ""2B"" and the cartoon closes with Bugs Bunny quoting the famous line from ""Hamlet"" - ""To be, or not to be-that is the question"". The Bugs Bunny short ""Transylvania 6-5000"" (1963) features a brief, silent cameo appearance from Witch Hazel (or a character very similar to her), as Bugs briefly transforms Count Blood Count, the cartoon's vampire antagonist, into her through"
"Come"" also derives its name from a line from this soliloquy. A shorter Hindi version of ""To be, or not to be"" was recited by Shahid Kapoor in the 2014 Bollywood film ""Haider"". ""Stargate Atlantis"", the Season 4 Episode 10 named ""This Mortal Coil"" (2008) after the soliloquy, as well as Season 4 Episode 11 named ""Be All My Sins Remember'd"" (2008). These episodes involved learning about and fighting the artificial intelligence species Replicator. There are numerous snowclones based the phrase, such as ""To hack or not to hack"", etc. The virtuoso soliloquy in Carl Michael Bellman's Fredman's Epistle ""Ack"
"performed by solo artists who – unlike players in a monodrama – do not assume or tell the story through any one character, but do so instead with oral nuances to bring the story alive with their interpretation of how the creator of the piece intended the story to be told. The term soliloquist can apply to a monologist reciting a soliloquy, usually from a play, to entertain an audience. Passages in which characters orally reveal their thoughts are probably most associated with the works of William Shakespeare. Monologist A monologist (), or interchangeably monologuist (), is a solo artist"
"These included games like 'flyting' (a tournament of increasingly outrageous insults); an explanation and demonstration of the 'Nub' (a piece of poetic-sounding doggerel an actor uses to give himself a breathing space when he has forgotten his lines - the first sentence should contain the word 'nub' to warn the others that the actor is in trouble, and it should end with the words ""Milford Haven""); and fastest recitation of Hamlet's To be, or not to be soliloquy; among many others. Campbell continued working with some of the actors from ""Shall We Shog"", shedding and adding more along the way."
"Easton's chair, stroking his face and vowing to prove her dramatic talents to him. She makes a spectacle of herself before the bemused party guests. Then unexpectedly she gives two Shakespearean orations, Hamlet's well-known monologue (""to be or not to be"") followed by Juliet's balcony scene. The difference in the roles demonstrates her art; she gets a polite ovation from the guests and further impresses Sheridan. Eva lays her head on Easton's lap and promptly falls asleep. His butler put her to bed in his own bedroom. The next morning, Easton asks Sheridan for help. Easton gave in to temptation"
"well have written: “To be seen or not to be seen, that is the question.” It is an issue that concerns many of Beckett's characters. At the end of the first act of ""Waiting for Godot"", when the boy wants to know what to tell Mr Godot, Vladimir tells him: “Tell him … (""he hesitates"") … tell him you saw us. (""Pause."") You did see us, didn’t you?” But what happens when you are alone? The narrator of ""The Unnamable"" answers: “They depart, one by one, and the voices go on, it’s not theirs, they were never there, there was"
"he is called by his family, believes the first session is not going well, but Lionel, who insists that all his patients address him as such, has his potential client recite Hamlet's ""To be, or not to be"" soliloquy while hearing classical music played on a pair of headphones. Bertie is frustrated at the experiment but Lionel gives him the acetate recording that he has made of the reading as a souvenir. After Bertie's father, King George V, broadcasts his 1934 Royal Christmas Message, he explains to Bertie that the wireless will play a significant part in the role of"
"Phrases from Hamlet in common English 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. Also, some occur elsewhere, such as the Bible, or are proverbial. A few, listed out (""Note: all are second quarto except as noted""): Act I, scene 1: Act I, scene 2: Act I, scene 3: Act I, scene 4: Act I, scene 5: Act II, scene 2: ""Caviar to the general"" Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 431–440 Act III, scene 1: Act III, scene"
"the characters returns to defend himself. Despite their good intentions, they cannot help. Between these visits, the dialog between Beckmann and the Other goes on. There is little change in the content of their arguments; however, both of them become increasingly desperate. Finally, after the girl and her one-legged husband have left, a desperate Beckmann begins a long monologue, at the end of which he demands an answer from the Other; who is fading away. There is no reply, and Beckman realizes he is all alone. Presumably, he has drowned himself. The play received its US debut at the President"
"Polonius persuade Ophelia—Polonius' daughter and Hamlet's true love—to speak with Hamlet while they secretly listen. Hamlet enters, contemplating suicide (""To be, or not to be""). Ophelia greets him, and offers to return his remembrances, upon which Hamlet questions her honesty and tells her to ""get thee to a nunnery."" Hamlet devises a test to see whether Claudius is guilty: he hires a group of actors to perform a play about the murder of a king in front of the royal court, and has Horatio gauge Claudius' reaction. Claudius demands the play be stopped half through because it is the cause"
"lies to his wife, and Gooper and Mae exhibit avaricious motives in their attempt to secure Big Daddy's estate. In some cases, characters refuse to believe certain statements, leading them to believe they are lies. A recurring phrase is the line, ""Wouldn't it be funny if that was true?"", said by both Big Daddy and Brick after Big Mama and Maggie (respectively) claim their love. The characters' statements of feeling are no longer clear-cut truths or lies; instead they become subject more to certainty or uncertainty. This phrase is the last line of the play as originally written by Williams"
"picture titled ""To Be or Not To Be"". The story is a comedy about a troupe of Polish actors in the Nazi era. A key plot point revolves around the famous soliloquy. The story was remade in 1983 in a film starring (and produced by) Mel Brooks. Laurence Olivier's 1948 moody black-and-white ""Hamlet"" won Best Picture and Best Actor Oscars, and is still, , the only Shakespeare film to have done so. His interpretation stressed the Oedipal overtones of the play, and cast 28-year-old Eileen Herlie as Hamlet's mother, opposite himself, at 41, as Hamlet. In 1953, actor Jack Manning"
"and directed by Peter Snee and premiered at the Stoke Repertory Theatre in a professional production for Theatre Giant. The play had strong reviews and the writing was described by one critic as ‘Pinter-esque’. The uplifting comedy takes place over a series of coffee mornings between two working women. It explores the Hamlet quote ""to be or not to be"", as one woman suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, yet speaks nothing of it, whilst the other takes arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing them, ends them - but to what benefit? In 2013 Brennan"
"2: Act III, Scene 4: Act III, Scene 4: Act IV, Scene 4: Act V, Scene 1: Act V, Scene 2: ""Major links:"" ""Minor links:"" Phrases from Hamlet in common English 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. Also, some occur elsewhere, such as the Bible, or are proverbial. A few, listed out (""Note: all are second quarto except as noted""): Act I, scene 1: Act I, scene 2: Act I, scene 3: Act I, scene 4:"
"play out. The earliest of the mature soliloquies occur in ""Julius Caesar"" where Shakespeare develops Brutus as a forerunner of Hamlet: the self-critical and honest man struggling to do what’s right in unpropitious circumstances. Hamlet’s seven soliloquies, and the single major soliloquy of Claudius in ""Hamlet"" can all be described as ‘a search for a difficult sincerity’, and represent Shakespeare’s most extended study of the workings of the human mind; it is not until the novels of Dostoyevsky that a character’s inner self is examined with such power, discrimination and technical skill. Shakespeare’s soliloquies are written in blank verse of"
"told “hang or be hanged”. He finally begs Ralph for a part in the play. A Jewish convict, John Wisehammer, engages Mary in a conversation about the meanings and sounds of words; she suggests he also take part in the play. At the first rehearsal, two actors, Kable and Arscott, are missing; Sideway overacts, and Liz can't act at all. A convict named Black Caesar arrives and asks to play a servant. The rehearsal is interrupted by Ross and Campbell, who inform Ralph that Cable and Arscott have escaped. Ross arrests Caesar, who initially went with the escapees but came"