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  2. Phrases from Hamlet in common English - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare's play Hamlet has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous "To be, or not to be" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Some also occur elsewhere (e.g. in the Bible) or are proverbial. All quotations are second quarto except as noted:

  3. Music in the plays of William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    The following are among the most notable examples of songs in Shakespeare's plays: "Full Fathom Five" in The Tempest, I, 2 "How Should I Your True Love Know?" in Hamlet IV, 5 "It Was a Lover and His Lass" in As You Like It V, 3 "O Mistress Mine" in Twelfth Night, II, 3 "Sigh No More" in Much Ado About Nothing, II, 3

  4. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    The Dire Straits songs makes use of certain aspects of Shakespeare's play, as well as elements of some of the play's stage and screen adaptations. It also purposely diverges from the play's plot and characterizations in certain respects (such as Juliet's reaction to being approached by Romeo). [179] "Rusty James" ¡Uno! Green Day: Rumble Fish ...

  5. Song for Athene - Wikipedia

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    "Song for Athene", which has a performance time of about seven minutes, is an elegy consisting of the Hebrew word alleluia ("let us praise the Lord") sung monophonically six times as an introduction to texts excerpted and modified from the funeral service of the Eastern Orthodox Church and from Shakespeare's Hamlet (probably 1599–1601). [4]

  6. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep - Wikipedia

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    Canadian singer the Weeknd references this prayer in his song "Big Sleep" from his 2025 album Hurry Up Tomorrow, where featured artist Giorgio Moroder recites the lines "Now I lay me down to sleep, pray the Lord my soul to keep, angels watch me through the night, wake me up with light" in the second verse.

  7. What a piece of work is a man - Wikipedia

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    Yes faith, this great world you see contents me not, No nor the spangled heauens, nor earth, nor sea, No nor Man that is so glorious a creature, Contents not me, no nor woman too, though you laugh. [2] This version has been argued to have been a bad quarto, a tourbook copy, or an initial draft.

  8. List of works titled after Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    "Cruel to Be Kind", 1979 song by Nick Lowe "Cruel to Be Kind", 1995 song by Spacehog; The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine by Marion Woodman (IV.v) Goodnight, Sweet Ladies by Shamus Frazer (IV.v) Single Spies by Alan Bennett (IV.v) O, How the Wheel Becomes It by Anthony Powell (IV.v)

  9. The lady doth protest too much, methinks - Wikipedia

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    The Queen in "Hamlet" by Edwin Austin Abbey "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" is a line from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare.It is spoken by Queen Gertrude in response to the insincere overacting of a character in the play within a play created by Prince Hamlet to elicit evidence of his uncle's guilt in the murder of his father, the King of Denmark.