All 8 Uses

Hamlet
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David Copperfield
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He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly.
Chpt 1-3

Hamlet = title and main character of Shakespeare's often quoted tragedy in which a sensitive man seeks to avenge his father's murder
He told me he was happy to have the honour of making my acquaintance; and when I had paid my homage to Mrs. Waterbrook, presented me, with much ceremony, to a very awful lady in a black velvet dress, and a great black velvet hat, whom I remember as looking like a near relation of Hamlet's — say his aunt.
Chpt 25-27
Mr. Waterbrook went down with Hamlet's aunt.
Chpt 25-27
Traddles and I were separated at table, being billeted in two remote corners: he in the glare of a red velvet lady; I, in the gloom of Hamlet's aunt.
Chpt 25-27 *
To mend the matter, Hamlet's aunt had the family failing of indulging in soliloquy, and held forth in a desultory manner, by herself, on every topic that was introduced.
Chpt 25-27
There is nothing,' observed Hamlet's aunt, 'so satisfactory to one!
Chpt 25-27

Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:

How they affected my aunt, nobody knew; for immediately upon the separation, she took her maiden name again, bought a cottage in a hamlet on the sea-coast a long way off, established herself there as a single woman with one servant, and was understood to live secluded, ever afterwards, in an inflexible retirement.†
Chpt 1-3
I shall simply require to be deposited in that place of universal resort, where Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep, '— With the plain Inscription, 'WILKINS MICAWBER.'†
Chpt 49-51 *

Definitions:

(1) (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!
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, hamlet may refer to a community of people that is smaller than a village.