Ummm, no. I'm afraid you're wrong, by about two acts. I don't have H. in front of me, but "To be or not to be, doobie doobie do" was Hamlet's soliloqouy early in the third act. "Alas, oor Yurick, I knew him well, of infinite jest, of excellent fancy, yada^3" doesn't appear until the fifth act, as I recall. Neither "wacky," both are worth reading through more than a few times. In fact, if you read nothing but those two passages, you'd have a pretty good idea as to what H. is all about and what Bill was trying to say. -- Luke On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Christy Bright wrote: > > yorick is on the receiving end of that wacky "to be or not to be" > spiel. Luke Seemann o----------------------------------------- http://www.stardot.com/~lukeseem | "Sometimes nothing can be (505) 843-7165 stubb@nwu.edu | a pretty cool hand." -----------------------------------o -- C.S. Lewis