BookAges 14–15
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
British
A prince meets his father's ghost on the battlements at Elsinore and is asked to remember. The greatest play in the language. Read aloud; the Branagh film after.
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“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.”
— Hamlet (William Shakespeare), Hamlet, Act III, Scene i
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LibriVox · Hamlet soliloquy
“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals.”
— Hamlet (William Shakespeare), Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii
“I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.”
— Hamlet (William Shakespeare), Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii