"Alas,
poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio—a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent
fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorred in my
imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have
kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?
Your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?"
Hamlet, Act V, Scene i
Here you can find a thorough analysis of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy.
Now let's watch the famous soliloquy "To Be or Not To Be", probably the most famous speech in the English language, from the
1990 drama film on the Shakespearean
tragedy directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Mel Gibson as well as Kenneth Branagh's performance in the film he directed and produced in 1996.
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