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"These are but wild and whirling words, my lord", says Horatio to this title character |
Hamlet
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$400 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE GETS WILD |
2026-01-06 |
#9472 |
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"Frailty, thy name is woman" |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID IT? |
2025-11-25 |
#9442 |
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Bob & Doug McKenzie find that something is rotten at Elsinore Brewery in the comedy "Strange Brew", inspired by this tragedy |
Hamlet
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$400 |
J |
INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE |
2024-06-27 |
#9134 |
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A Thomas Kyd play featuring a ghost & a play within a play is thought to have inspired this Shakespeare work published in 1603 |
Hamlet
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$1,600 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES |
2022-12-30 |
#8775 |
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I'm going over this guy's monologue for an audition... "To be, or not to be", OK... "bare bodkin"... "mortal coil"... I totally got this! |
Hamlet
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
2022-10-16 |
#4 |
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"This above all: to thine own self be true" |
Hamlet
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$800 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY QUOTE |
2022-05-10 |
#8637 |
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Fortinbras ends act V & this play with "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" |
Hamlet
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$800 |
J |
LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT |
2022-02-25 |
#8585 |
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This troubled title guy says the Danes are known as drunkards to other nations |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE, YOU'RE DRUNK |
2021-12-21 |
#8537 |
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Laertes gets the short end of the (poisoned) stick |
Hamlet
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$800 |
DJ |
NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY |
2021-08-11 |
#8463 |
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Scouting report on this title guy: very indecisive hitting holes but has great vision--even of his own father's ghost |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER FOOTBALL TEAM |
2021-05-27 |
#8409 |
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With 4,042 lines, it's Shakespeare's longest play & it's also the one that's been filmed the most |
Hamlet
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FJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
2021-04-14 |
#8378 |
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"The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit. I cannot live to hear the news from England" (& a few words later, he's correct) |
Hamlet
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$600 |
J |
SEZ YOU, SHAKESPEARE! |
2020-12-14 |
#8301 |
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"A bloody deed--almost as bad, good mother as kill a king, and marry with his brother" |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE |
2020-06-12 |
#8235 |
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"Elseneur, Une Salle Du Palais" |
Hamlet
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$400 |
J |
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERA BY ARIA |
2018-12-13 |
#7884 |
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Fortinbras, prince of Norway; two clowns, listed as gravediggers |
Hamlet
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$400 |
J |
ALSO IN THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY |
2017-07-11 |
#7572 |
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London's Theatre N16 did "Gertrude-The Cry", a reworking, with some nudity, of this play |
Hamlet
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$1,600 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE BUFFS |
2017-06-02 |
#7545 |
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Here's an old friend from Act V of this play |
Hamlet
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$400 |
J |
SHAKESPEAREAN YARD SALE |
2017-02-15 |
#7468 |
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This tragedy has it all! Poison in the ear, on a sword & in some wine, & the title guy giving his royal mom advice about her sex life! |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
THAT'S MESSED UP, SHAKESPEARE! |
2016-11-10 |
#7399 |
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Yorick is toast, ba-ba-ba... "Where be your gibes now? Your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment" |
Hamlet
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$600 |
J |
LATER IN THE SHAKESPEARE SPEECH |
2016-06-24 |
#7330 |
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"A plain near to a port in Denmark" is a setting in this play |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS |
2016-05-16 |
#7301 |
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Denmark |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE SETS THE PLAY |
2015-03-30 |
#7036 |
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"I, the son of a dear father murdered, prompted to my revenge by Heaven and Hell" |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEAREAN WHO SAID IT? |
2014-12-08 |
#6956 |
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"Take up the bodies. such a sight as this becomes the field, but here shows much amiss" |
Hamlet
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$1,600 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE'S ENDINGS |
2014-07-14 |
#6881 |
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Nephew of King Claudius |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN RELATIVES |
2013-12-27 |
#6740 |
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The title guy:"What, ho! Horatio!" |
Hamlet
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$800 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN DIALOGUE, HO! |
2013-11-14 |
#6709 |
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"Elsinore. A platform before the castle" |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEAREAN SCENE SETTINGS |
2012-12-03 |
#6491 |
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This title guy goes after Laertes--at a funeral!--but ends up saying, "I prithee take thy fingers from my throat" |
Hamlet
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$800 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE, SHAKESPEARE, FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! |
2012-07-05 |
#6414 |
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This play opens on the battlements of the castle at Elsinore as Barnardo asks, "who's there?" |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
A SHAKESPEARE PLAY, FOR OPENERS |
2012-01-19 |
#6294 |
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Polonius, Act II, Scene i:"Wherefore should you do this?" |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
RARELY QUOTED SHAKESPEAREAN DIALOGUE |
2011-10-05 |
#6218 |
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"The rest is silence" |
Hamlet
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$600 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS' DYING WORDS |
2011-06-20 |
#6176 |
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Fortinbras gets the last line in this play: "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" |
Hamlet
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$1,200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC ENDINGS |
2011-01-14 |
#6065 |
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"Soft you now, the fair Ophelia--nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered" |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
WHO SAID IT, SHAKESPEARE? |
2010-09-24 |
#5985 |
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He's troubled:HALT ME |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
ANAGRAMMED SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS |
2009-12-10 |
#5809 |
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(Wolf Blitzer delivers the clue from the Shakespearean Room.) Confrontation at Elsinore Castle. Laertes wishes vengeance for his father's death in this play, & the King says yes to those demands |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
THE SHAKESPEAREAN ROOM |
2009-10-30 |
#5780 |
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"Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't" |
Hamlet
DD
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$1,000 |
J |
NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY |
2009-04-29 |
#5683 |
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In 1988 Val Kilmer was doomed to play this Dane at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Boulder |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS |
2009-01-27 |
#5617 |
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In the 1970s, when she was in her 70s, Dame Judith Anderson took on this male role; she'd previously played his mom |
Hamlet
DD
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$1,000 |
J |
SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE |
2009-01-07 |
#5603 |
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In this play Guildenstern says, "O, there has been much throwing about of brains" |
Hamlet
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$1,200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
2008-12-01 |
#5576 |
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He is way harsh with Ophelia when he goes, "Get thee to a nunnery" |
Hamlet
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$400 |
J |
IT'S LIKE, SHAKESPEARE, YOU KNOW? |
2008-11-14 |
#5565 |
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Talk toyourself much? /I, Claudius, killed your dad /You're not mad, are you? |
Hamlet
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$400 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE GOES HAIKU |
2008-10-23 |
#5549 |
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Ophelia says, "'Tis brief, my lord"; he responds, "As women's love" |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE ON LOVE |
2008-09-09 |
#5517 |
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The Troubadour Theater Co.'s 2006 show about him was subtitled "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince of Denmark" |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKEN-UP SHAKESPEARE |
2008-07-10 |
#5504 |
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This play's line "murder most foul" has been used as the title of mystery & crime books |
Hamlet
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$800 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
2008-06-16 |
#5486 |
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Knock knock!Barnardo:"Who's there?" |
Hamlet
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$800 |
J |
OPENING LINES OF SHAKESPEARE |
2008-03-12 |
#5418 |
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"There's something in his soul o'er which his melancholy sits on brood" is said of this title character |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS |
2007-12-28 |
#5365 |
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Stabbed the king & made him drink poison--something is rotten in the state of Denmark... & it's him |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
CSI: SHAKESPEARE |
2007-09-20 |
#5294 |
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Laertes is Ophelia's brother in this end-all, be-all of Shakespeare's plays |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
2007-02-09 |
#5165 |
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I included a Norwegian guy in this play & dubbed Osric "a fantastic fop"; the ending is a whit of a bummer |
Hamlet
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$800 |
DJ |
A LOST LETTER FROM SHAKESPEARE |
2006-12-21 |
#5129 |
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In Act I he says, "The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables" |
Hamlet
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FJ |
CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE |
2006-10-11 |
#5078 |
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Multiple homicides, regicide via poison in ear; unit dispatched to nunnery for further investigation |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEAREAN POLICE BLOTTER |
2006-09-13 |
#5058 |
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Valtemand, Osric, Horatio |
Hamlet
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$1,200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY CHARACTER |
2006-07-24 |
#5051 |
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This title guy: "A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm" |
Hamlet
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$600 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE |
2006-06-13 |
#5022 |
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Forget rotten; T.S. Eliot said "So far from being Shakespeare's masterpiece", it "is most certainly an artistic failure" |
Hamlet
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$600 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE |
2006-03-16 |
#4959 |
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"Small Village" |
Hamlet
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$400 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS |
2006-02-23 |
#4944 |
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He declares his love to Ophelia in a letter saying, "Doubt Truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love" |
Hamlet
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$600 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE |
2006-01-31 |
#4927 |
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So your uncle killed Dad & married Mom; I say stop brooding, get off your duff & kill your uncle! |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
DR. PHIL, SHAKESPEAREAN COUNSELOR |
2005-11-01 |
#4862 |
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Polonius uses the word "outbreak" about Laertes' fiery mind, not this title character |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS |
2005-05-31 |
#4787 |
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"Boo-oo!""Bl-bl-bl-bl! Mad! Ow!""Poison!""Mother! Treachery!""Agh-hh-hh-hh!""Ugh!" |
Hamlet
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$400 |
J |
REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY |
2005-04-26 |
#4762 |
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Those portraying a Norwegian captain in this play don't have to worry about memorizing a lot of lines |
Hamlet
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$1,200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE'S SMALL PARTS |
2004-11-26 |
#4655 |
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Laertes' first line in this play is "Dread my lord, your leave and favour to return to France" |
Hamlet
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$1,200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
2004-05-21 |
#4550 |
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Oscar Wilde asked whether the critics who'd written on this play were mad or only pretending to be |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREANA |
2003-12-26 |
#4445 |
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Near the end of the play named for him, he says, "In this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, to tell my story" |
Hamlet
DD
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$2,000 |
DJ |
BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE |
2003-06-30 |
#4351 |
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"To be or not to be...that is a real head-scratcher" |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE'S EARLY DRAFTS |
2002-12-09 |
#4206 |
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"The lady doth protest too much, methinks" |
Hamlet
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$800 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE PLAYS |
2002-04-09 |
#4062 |
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Poison spoils Elsinore royals; also, this title character's play within play becomes B'way smash! |
Hamlet
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$600 |
J |
TABLOID SHAKESPEARE |
2002-02-28 |
#4034 |
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Looking for a title for your mystery novel? Lift this play's "murder most foul" or "not a mouse stirring" |
Hamlet
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$800 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
2001-12-20 |
#3984 |
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In this play the question is, who's going to die--the King, the Queen, Ophelia & the title guy do |
Hamlet
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$200 |
DJ |
WILL SHAKESPEARE, SERIAL KILLER |
2001-07-17 |
#3902 |
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Danish guys look really great in tights; we learned it from this play |
Hamlet
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$600 |
DJ |
WE LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE |
2001-02-07 |
#3788 |
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Osric is a fatuous fop at the Danish court in this tragedy |
Hamlet
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS |
2000-07-07 |
#3665 |
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This tragedy has got to be set in a small village, hence the title |
Hamlet
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$200 |
DJ |
I HAVEN'T READ SHAKESPEARE, BUT... |
1999-10-08 |
#3470 |
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"Amleto" |
Hamlet
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS |
1999-05-26 |
#3403 |
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Christopher Walken played this doomed Dane twice, in 1974 & 1982 |
Hamlet
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS |
1999-05-17 |
#3396 |
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Horatio begs this king's ghost to "Stay, and speak!" but it disappears when the cock crows |
Hamlet
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$600 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS |
1999-04-19 |
#3376 |
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Johnny should be famous for his incomparable performance in this role heard here:"To be or not to be, that is the question..." |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
JOHNNY GILBERT DOES SHAKESPEARE! |
1999-01-13 |
#3308 |
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"The Murder of Gonzago" was the thing he used to "catch the conscience of the king" |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS WITHIN PLAYS |
1998-07-08 |
#3208 |
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He says, "Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft" while holding Yorick's skull |
Hamlet
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$100 |
J |
SMOOCHING IN SHAKESPEARE |
1998-04-08 |
#3143 |
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To be sure, one of his soliloquies begins, "How all occasions do inform against me" |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE |
1997-12-10 |
#3058 |
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Shakespearean character who speaks the lines heard here:"O, I die, Horatio; The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit: ...the rest is silence" |
Hamlet
DD
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$1,300 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1997-11-07 |
#3035 |
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Horatio speaks of this play's "Carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts", & he should know |
Hamlet
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$800 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE DARK |
1997-10-06 |
#3011 |
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In this play, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern almost always appear together |
Hamlet
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$600 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1997-05-19 |
#2941 |
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Act II of this tragedy opens in Polonius' house |
Hamlet
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1996-12-09 |
#2826 |
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In this 1990 film Glenn Close played Mel Gibson's mother |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
RECENT SHAKESPEARE MOVIES |
1996-07-03 |
#2743 |
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This play's last line, "Go, bid the soldiers shoot", is spoken by Fortinbras, Prince of Norway |
Hamlet
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$400 |
J |
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS |
1996-05-22 |
#2713 |
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The first gravedigger provides some much-needed comic relief in Act V of this tragedy |
Hamlet
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$600 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1996-05-08 |
#2703 |
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Gertrude, Laertes, Claudius & this man all die in the same scene— something must be rotten |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES |
1996-03-19 |
#2667 |
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Play that gave us the phrase "To thine own self be true" |
Hamlet
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$1,000 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE'S CATCH PHRASES |
1996-03-14 |
#2664 |
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He cries out, "Angels and ministers of grace defend us!" when he sees the ghost of his father |
Hamlet
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$800 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1995-12-25 |
#2606 |
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This prince stabs King Claudius with a poisoned rapier |
Hamlet
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$600 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1995-11-20 |
#2581 |
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The ghost tells him, "I am thy father's spirit, doomed for a certain term to walk the night..." |
Hamlet
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE |
1995-10-02 |
#2546 |
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern don't appear in this play until Act II, scene II |
Hamlet
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$400 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE |
1995-02-16 |
#2414 |
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This title character says Claudius is "no more like my father than I to Hercules" |
Hamlet
DD
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$800 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS |
1994-06-22 |
#2273 |
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One critic griped that Laurence Olivier played this title prince "entirely without melancholy" |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS |
1994-06-09 |
#2264 |
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After this prince dies, Fortinbras says, "Let four captains bear" him "like a soldier to the stage" |
Hamlet
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$1,000 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1994-04-12 |
#2222 |
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Characters in this play include Osric, Voltimand & Guildenstern |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1994-03-30 |
#2213 |
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This Dane wants to go back to school in Wittenberg but his mother & stepfather talk him out of it |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1994-02-22 |
#2187 |
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This title character holds Yorick's skull when he says, "Alas, poor Yorick!" |
Hamlet
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1993-11-12 |
#2115 |
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Appropriately, it was at Elsinore that John Gielgud played this title character in 1939 |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS |
1993-10-11 |
#2091 |
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Legend says Will acted in his own plays, as Adam in "As You Like It" & the ghost in this tragedy |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
WILL SHAKESPEARE |
1993-04-05 |
#1986 |
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This title character's mother is also his aunt because she married his Uncle Claudius |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1992-02-04 |
#1717 |
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In Act I, Scene 1 of this play, a ghost appears to Barnardo, Marcellus & Horatio |
Hamlet
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$300 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE |
1991-11-13 |
#1658 |
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Ophelia says of him, "O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown" |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1991-03-14 |
#1514 |
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His "to be or not to be" speech might have gone on forever if he hadn't noticed Ophelia |
Hamlet
|
$100 |
J |
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS |
1991-01-18 |
#1475 |
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"The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king" |
Hamlet
DD
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$2,700 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES |
1990-11-27 |
#1437 |
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The full title of the play includes his title, "Prince of Denmark" |
Hamlet
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$100 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE |
1990-11-14 |
#1428 |
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The last line in this play, "Go, bid the soldiers shoot," is spoken by Fortinbras |
Hamlet
DD
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$1,000 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1990-10-17 |
#1408 |
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Strangely, in 1971 Dame Judith Anderson played this Danish prince on stage |
Hamlet
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS |
1989-07-13 |
#1139 |
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He says of his relationship to Claudius, "a little more than kin, and less than kind" |
Hamlet
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$600 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN 1st LINES |
1988-07-08 |
#905 |
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"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark", & then things really get bad |
Hamlet
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$100 |
J |
SHAKESPEAREAN SYNOPSES |
1988-06-10 |
#885 |
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4 or 5 players,2 grave diggers,& "a fantastic fop" |
Hamlet
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$300 |
J |
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS |
1988-03-09 |
#818 |
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Gower Champion staged a "Rockabye" version of this tragedy to say "Good night, sweet prince" |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE ON BROADWAY |
1987-04-30 |
#624 |
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"Who's there?""Nay, answer me.Stand & unfold yourself." |
Hamlet
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$600 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN 1STLINES |
1986-11-11 |
#502 |
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He dies saying "The rest is silence", but Horatio & Fortinbras go on for another 45 lines |
Hamlet
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE'S MEN |
1986-03-17 |
#396 |
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Title character who said, "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king" |
Hamlet
|
$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE |
1985-10-23 |
#293 |
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Troubled Dane who is put to rest with "Goodnight, sweet prince" |
Hamlet
|
$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1985-02-26 |
#122 |