1 | ->''Did Ophelia ask Hamlet to bed?''\ |
2 | ''Was Gertrude incestuously wed?''\ |
3 | ''Is anything certain?''\ |
4 | ''By the fall of the curtain''\ |
5 | ''[[EverybodyDiesEnding Almost everyone's certainly dead.]]'' |
6 | -->-- '''A. Cinna''', found in ''The Penguin Book of Limericks'' |
7 | |
8 | ->'''Naomi:''' Hamlet's basically a teenage [[{{Emo}} boy]]. He's [[AllMenArePerverts got all these desires]], but [[CannotSpitItOut he doesn't have the bottle to reach out for them]]. So, [[LoveMakesYouCrazy he goes mad]], and [[{{Wangst}} wanks off]] about [[TheOphelia Ophelia]], and [[{{Foreshadowing}} ends up so boring, somebody has to kill him]]!\ |
9 | '''Josie:''' I'm not sure that's right. There's no wanking in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.\ |
10 | '''Naomi:''' Yeah, there is. Loads. Only they call it "[[SurrogateSoliloquy soliloquising]]". |
11 | -->-- ''Series/{{Skins}}'' |
12 | |
13 | ->''[[{{Wangst}} Cheer up, Hamlet; chin up, Hamlet; buck up, you melancholy Dane!]]'' |
14 | ->''So your uncle is a cad who murdered Dad and married Mum?'' |
15 | ->''That's really no excuse to be as glum as you've become!'' |
16 | ->''So wise up, Hamlet; rise up, Hamlet; perk up and sing a new refrain!'' |
17 | ->''Your incessant monologuing fills the castle with'' ennui. |
18 | ->''Your antic disposition is embarrassing to see.'' |
19 | ->''And by the way, you sulky brat, the answer is 'to be'!'' |
20 | ->''You're driving poor [[TheOphelia Ophelia]] insane.'' |
21 | ->''So shut up, you rogue and peasant; grow up, it's most unpleasant; cheer up, you melancholy Dane!'' |
22 | -->-- ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'' |
23 | |
24 | ->'''Rosencrantz:''' Half of what he said meant something else, and the other half didn't mean anything at all! |
25 | -->-- ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'' |
26 | |
27 | ->''Higgeldy Piggeldy,\ |
28 | Hamlet of Elsinore\ |
29 | Ruffled the critics by\ |
30 | Dropping this bomb:\ |
31 | "Phooey on Freud and his\ |
32 | Psychoanalysis --\ |
33 | Oedipus, Shmoedipus,\ |
34 | I just loved Mom."'' |
35 | |
36 | ->''Are the commentators on '''Hamlet''' really mad or only pretending to be mad?'' |
37 | |
38 | ->''I like to think that there's a little Hamlet in all of us. Not that melancholy stuff. Or being a prince. But I've always believed that we should have a little Danish in us. Especially in the morning.'' |
39 | -->-- '''Creator/LeslieNielsen''' |
40 | |
41 | ->''An interesting anagram: "To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." becomes... "In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."'' |
42 | |
43 | ->'''''Green Eggs and Hamlet'''\ |
44 | by Tim Hnetka\ |
45 | \ |
46 | I ask to be, or not to be.\ |
47 | That is the thing, I ask of me.\ |
48 | This sullied life, it makes me shudder.\ |
49 | My unc' is boffing my dear mother.\ |
50 | Would I, could I take my life?\ |
51 | Could I, should I, end this strife?\ |
52 | Should I jump out of a plane?\ |
53 | Or lie down in front of a train?\ |
54 | Should I from a cliff just leap?\ |
55 | Could I put myself to sleep?\ |
56 | Shoot myself, or take some poison?\ |
57 | Maybe try self immolation?\ |
58 | To shudder off this mortal coil,\ |
59 | I could stab myself with a foil,\ |
60 | Or slash my wrists while in the bath?\ |
61 | Would it help to end my wrath?\ |
62 | To sleep, to dream, aye, there's the rub.\ |
63 | I'd drop a toaster in my tub.\ |
64 | Would they be happy, with me dead?\ |
65 | Could I murder them instead?\ |
66 | These thoughts take much consideration,\ |
67 | I'm the prince of procrastination.'' |
68 | |
69 | ->''Prince Hamlet thought uncle a traitor\ |
70 | For having it off with his mater.\ |
71 | "Revenge Dad or not?"'s\ |
72 | The gist of the plot.\ |
73 | He did -- nine soliloquies later.'' |
74 | -->-- '''Stanley J. Sharpless''' |
75 | |
76 | ->''Will you kill him in his bed?\ |
77 | Stick a dagger in his head?\ |
78 | I would not, could not kill the king.\ |
79 | I would not do this evil thing.\ |
80 | I will not wed this girl, you see.\ |
81 | So get her to a nunnery.'' |
82 | -->-- '''Green Eggs and Hamlet''' |
83 | |
84 | ->'''Officer Don:''' Hamlet? The story is as old as time: Pretty boy son has a rich daddy, and a good-looking mommy. The uncle knocks off daddy, marries mommy, and he cuts pretty boy out of the action. So junior goes crazy and he kills them all. Not a pretty story... but there it is.\ |
85 | '''Tommy Solomon:''' Isn't that the plot to 'The Lion King'? |
86 | -->-- ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' |
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