I really enjoy the fact that you can basically sum up the ending of Hamlet with this gif

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“Love is merely a madness.”

—William Shakespeare
  • Queen Gertrude: Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.
  • Hamlet: Mother, you have my father much offended.
  • Queen Gertrude: Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.
  • Hamlet: Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.
  • Queen Gertrude:
  • Queen Gertrude:
  • Queen Gertrude: Listen here you little shit.

London, 1601. A Conversation with Shakespeare

  • BURBAGE: Hey, Will, I've been looking over this "to be or not to be" stuff, and I think we have a problem.
  • SHAKESPEARE: Really? What?
  • BURBAGE: Well, you know lines 78-80?
  • SHAKESPEARE: You mean where I call death "the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns"? What's wrong with that?
  • BURBAGE: You do realize we have a ghost in this play, right?
  • SHAKESPEARE: ...
  • BURBAGE: ...
  • SHAKESPEARE: Ehh, let's just keep it in. Maybe no one will notice.

“Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into hey nonny, nonny.”

—William Shakespeare, from “Sigh No More” in Much Ado About Nothing
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