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Hamlet: Hark you, Guildenstern; and you too: at each ear a hearer: that great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts.

line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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King Claudius: Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern.
Queen Gertrude: Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz:
And I beseech you instantly to visit my too much changed son.

line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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First Ambassador: The ears are senseless that should give us hearing,
To tell him his commandment is fulfill’d,
That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead:
Where should we have our thanks?

line from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honor’s at the stake.

line from Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 4 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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The Super

When I was with a Shakespeare show
I played the part of Guildenstern,
Or Rosenkrantz - at least I know
It wasn't difficult to learn;
By Reader, do not at me scoff,
For futhermore I should explain
I was the understudy of
The understudy of the Dane.

Oh how it crabbed me just to think
They barred me from that role divine;
And how I longed to have them drink
A cup of slightly poisoned wine!
At every night with struts and rants
I strove my quid a week to earn,
And put my soul in Rosenkrantz -
Or was it haply, Guildenstern.

Alas! I might have spared by breath,
I never played the noble Dane;
And yet when Irving staged Macbeth
I bore a tree of Dunsinane,
And yearned for that barn-storming day,
Of hopes and dreams and patchy pants,
When Guildenstern I'd proudly play -
Or was, maybe, Rosenkrantz?

poem by Robert William Service
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King Claudius: How fares our cousin Hamlet?
Hamlet: Excellent, i' faith, of the chameleon's dish. I eat the air, promise-crammed. You cannot feed capons so.

line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Queen Gertrude: O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
Hamlet: Oh, throw away the worser part of it,
And live the purer with the other half.

line from Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1599)
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The Knight's Return

Hark! hark! hark!
The lark sings high in the dark.
The were wolves mutter, the night hawks moan,
The raven croaks from the Raven-stone;
What care I for his boding groan,
Riding the moorland to come to mine own?
Hark! hark! hark!
The lark sings high in the dark.

Hark! hark! hark!
The lark sings high in the dark.
Long have I wander'd by land and by sea,
Long have I ridden by moorland and lea;
Yonder she sits with my babe on her knee,
Sits at the window and watches for me!
Hark! hark! hark!
The lark sings high in the dark.

Written for music, 1857.

poem by Charles Kingsley
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A final house stands at this hamlet's site (In diesem Dorfe steht das letzte Haus)

A final house stands at this hamlet's site,
as lonesome as the final house on earth.
The road, unhindered by the hamlet's girth
keeps walking slowly out into the night.

The hamlet is but a transition side
of two expanses, anxious, terrified;
its walk along the houses mere relay.

And those that leave the hamlet wander wide
and many die perhaps along the way.

poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (19 September 1901), translated by Walter Aue
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Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.

quote by Liev Schreiber
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My Joy

Of a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes,
This is the sign to you and of my joy!
And like the fall and the rise of my muse to you.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Player Queen: Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fears grow great, great love grows there.

line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.

quote by David Carradine
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Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.

quote by David Carradine
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Hamlet: Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew.

line from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.

line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 4 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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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: The time is out of joint. O, cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

line from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! what
replication should be made by the son of a king?

line from Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with him in excellence; but, to know a man well, were to know himself.