All 4 Uses of
Hamlet
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The duke told him, and then says: "I'll answer by doing the Highland fling or the sailor's hornpipe; and you—well, let me see—oh, I've got it—you can do Hamlet's soliloquy."
Chpt 21Hamlet = title and main character of Shakespeare's often quoted tragedy in which a sensitive man seeks to avenge his father's murder
- Hamlet's which?
Chpt 21
- Hamlet's soliloquy, you know; the most celebrated thing in Shakespeare.
Chpt 21
- Richard III......Mr. Garrick Richmond......Mr. Kean Also: (by special request) Hamlet's Immortal Soliloquy !
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Definitions:
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(Hamlet as in: Shakespeare's play) Shakespeare often quoted tragedy in which a sensitive man (Hamlet) seeks to avenge his father's murder (c. 1601)Famous quotations from Hamlet include:
This above all,—to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
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,—
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,—'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die,—to sleep;—
To sleep: perchance to dream:
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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! -
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, hamlet may refer to a community of people that is smaller than a village.