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| | The progressive metal band [[Dream Theater]] had their biggest hit in the early 1990s with "Pull Me Under", a song that referenced ''Hamlet'' throughout. The song has some direct quotations from the play. | | The progressive metal band [[Dream Theater]] had their biggest hit in the early 1990s with "Pull Me Under", a song that referenced ''Hamlet'' throughout. The song has some direct quotations from the play. |
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| | + | ==Quotes and Lines== |
| | + | "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." <br /> |
| | + | -Marcellus, Act I, Scene 4 |
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| | + | "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King." <br /> |
| | + | -Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 |
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| | + | "To be, or not to be: that is the questoin. <br /> |
| | + | Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer <br /> |
| | + | The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, <br /> |
| | + | Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, <br /> |
| | + | And by opposing end them? To die; to sleep; <br /> |
| | + | No more; and by a sleep say we end <br /> |
| | + | The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks <br /> |
| | + | That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation <br /> |
| | + | Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; <br /> |
| | + | To sleep? perchance to dream. Ay there's the rub;" <br /> |
| | + | -Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1 |
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| | + | "Alas , poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio;" <br /> |
| | + | -Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1 |
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| | + | "Good night, sweet prince; and flights of angles sing thee to thy rest!" <br /> |
| | + | -Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2 |
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| | ==References== | | ==References== |