Listen to the powerful language of Hamlet's “To be, or not to be” monologue

Listen to the powerful language of Hamlet's “To be, or not to be” monologue

Listen to an actor performing the “To be, or not to be” monologue from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
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    Hamlet confronts his mother and mistakenly kills Polonius in Act III, scene 4, of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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    Watch an actor performing two of Hamlet's monologues in this discussion of the use of soliloquy in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
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    Short excerpts from a Folger Shakespeare Library production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, with critical analysis by the cast and crew.
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    Seeing Claudius alone and unarmed, Hamlet considers killing him in Act III, scene 3 of Shakespeare's Hamlet .