The famous line that begins Prince Hamlet's soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet, "To be, or not to be, that is the question" is probably the most cited statement in all classical drama. Hamlet's ...

From the Danish prince’s existential philosophizing to Ophelia’s devastating break from reality, Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is a gold mine of powerful speeches—the brooding titular character alone gives ...

When Hamlet asks, “To be, or not to be,” he is not merely rehearsing a thought about life and death. He is pausing at a far subtler threshold—the point where the weight of being someone begins to feel ...

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To paraphrase Hamlet, the question facing those staging this famous play is “To be or not to be the traditional production.” There are strong arguments for either choice. As you watch “Hamlet,” it ...

“To be, or not to be,” Hamlet says in his best-known speech — questioning the value of life itself and, more immediately, his own. But surely, these words have rarely if ever been uttered with such an ...

To be, or not to be, is the driving question behind James Ijames’s play and Wilbury Theatre’s Rhode Island premiere production PROVIDENCE — The great Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold used to ...

Ato Blankson-Wood performs Hamlet’s famous “To be, or not to be” soliloquy during the Public Theater’s production. Solea Pfeiffer performs as Ophelia in The Public Theater's "Hamlet" Solea Pfeiffer ...