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Friday, June 13, 2008

Hamlet Soliloquy Cut Down

This is Hamlet's "To Be or No To Be" Soliloquy from the title play.

HAMLET
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
To die: to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
--Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia!
Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.
Posted by TyHab at 2:48 PM

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