Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"To be, or not to be...\" is the opening phrase of a soliloquy in the \"Nunnery Scene\" of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.In the speech, a despondent Prince Hamlet contemplates death and suicide while waiting for Ophelia, the love of his life. He bemoans the pains and unfairness of life but acknowledges the alternative might be still worse. The speech functions within the play to explain Hamlet's hesitation to directly and immediately avenge his father's murder (discovered in Act I) on his uncle, stepfather, and new king Claudius. Claudius and his minister Polonius are preparing to eavesdrop on Hamlet's interaction with Ophelia."@en }
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- To_be,_or_not_to_be abstract "\"To be, or not to be...\" is the opening phrase of a soliloquy in the \"Nunnery Scene\" of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.In the speech, a despondent Prince Hamlet contemplates death and suicide while waiting for Ophelia, the love of his life. He bemoans the pains and unfairness of life but acknowledges the alternative might be still worse. The speech functions within the play to explain Hamlet's hesitation to directly and immediately avenge his father's murder (discovered in Act I) on his uncle, stepfather, and new king Claudius. Claudius and his minister Polonius are preparing to eavesdrop on Hamlet's interaction with Ophelia.".