| Shakespeare tragedy |
The Times Concise |
27 Aug 2025 |
| Shakespeare's longest play |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
26 Aug 2025 |
| Village |
The Telegraph Quick |
31 Jul 2025 |
| Shakespeare work not to be confused with his son, Hamnet |
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| Indecisive Prince of Hungary with charm that's not universal |
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| Shakespeare play that a group of actors staged inside "Grand Theft Auto Online" |
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| Little village for Shakespeare (6) |
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| Shakespeare play in which the characters Ophelia and Polonius appear (6) |
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| Small cluster of houses |
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| "The play's the thing" speaker |
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| Before noon 50 coming into the stricken village |
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| Small village |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Apr 2025 |
| Play in small village |
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| Bad actor allowed in Shakespearean production |
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| Best Picture of 1948 |
Thomas Joseph |
12 Mar 2025 |
| Small cluster of dwellings (6) |
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| Shakespearean tragedy set in Denmark (6) |
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| Longest Shakespeare tragedy |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Feb 2025 |
| Drama places restriction on clumsy performance |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Feb 2025 |
| Play in village (6) |
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| Bad actor allowed in Shakespeare play (6) |
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| William Shakespeare play (6) |
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| Shakespeare play seen in small village |
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| Benedict Cumberbatch took on this classic Shakespeare role (6) |
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| Little place, dramatically Danish (6) |
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| Tragic figure's line inspired by actor on Terms of Endearment |
The Telegraph Toughie |
11 Dec 2024 |
| Bad actor allowed in play (6) |
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| 1600 play by Shakespeare (6) |
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| Shakespeare's "melancholy Dane" |
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| Tragic hero from small village (6) |
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| Shakespeare play set in Denmark |
Universal |
21 Nov 2024 |
| Bard's brooder |
Newsday |
15 Nov 2024 |
| William Shakespeare play featuring characters Fortinbras and Laertes |
Mirror Quiz |
14 Nov 2024 |
| Shakespeare's village? (6) |
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| Tiny village |
Eugene Sheffer |
02 Nov 2024 |
| Part of a village? |
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| "Alas, poor Yorick," speaker |
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| Village play (6) |
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| Which character gives the "To be or not to be" soliloquy? (6) |
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| Shakespeare tragedy set in Denmark |
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| Great Dane in small village? |
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| Shakespeare play for a very small community (6) |
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| 1948 film for which Laurence Olivier won the Best Actor Oscar (6) |
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| Small village |
The Telegraph Quick |
31 Jul 2024 |
| Amateur radio enthusiast permitted in small village (6) |
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| Bad actor allowed to join the play (6) |
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| A village character depicted by Shakespeare (6) |
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| Play for the village (6) |
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| Overacting allowed in play |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 May 2024 |
| Minimal settlement for lead in drama |
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| Prince who knew funny man (not well) in village (6) |
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| Is Thelma coming out to play? |
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| Bad actor permitted to join play (6) |
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| Play for which actor given licence |
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| Prince Harry's initial charm after leaving university (6) |
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| Small village made famous by Shakespeare (6) |
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| A village character in Shakespeare (6) |
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| Village Shakespeare play? (6) |
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| Play a bowler, oddly Miller is included (6) |
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| The Dane |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Apr 2024 |
| Prince something of an amateur? |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Apr 2024 |
| Settlement smaller than a village (6) |
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| Poor actor rented a small village (6) |
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| Amateur actor allowed in Shakespeare play (6) |
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| Shakespeare play that is like the village in box E (6) |
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| Play in the village |
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| Shakespeare's little place in the country |
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| Prince of Denmark in a play by Shakespeare (6) |
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| Speaker of the quote that's found in the middle of the starred answers |
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| Shakespeare's "or not to be" guy |
Newsday |
15 Jan 2024 |
| Shakespeare play featuring Ophelia and Laertes (6) |
Puzzler |
09 Jan 2024 |
| Essentially the charm, you reportedly pulled out for a troubled prince (6) |
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| Small town play (6) |
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| Village |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Dec 2023 |
| Shakespeare tragedy about the Prince of Denmark |
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| "What a piece of work is a man" speaker |
LA Times Daily |
27 Aug 2023 |
| Source of the saying 'Brevity is the soul of wit' |
New York Times |
01 Aug 2023 |
| Poor actor allowed in drama |
The Times Cryptic |
11 May 2023 |
| Small village |
The Times Concise |
05 May 2023 |
| Ophelia's love |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Mar 2023 |
| Shakespeare character who says "To be, or not to be..." |
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| Shakespearean protagonist from the eponymous play who hails from the country of Denmark |
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| Tragic character in place with few inhabitants |
The Times Cryptic |
03 Nov 2022 |
| Small village |
LA Times Daily |
21 Sep 2022 |
| A Danish prince - or an English village? |
The Guardian Weekend |
17 Sep 2022 |
| Play well, trapping Middlesex's opener before tea, say |
The Guardian Cryptic |
26 Aug 2022 |
| Could it be a diminutive actor's role in the theatre? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
23 Aug 2022 |
| Play with little porker, whimsically? |
The Times Cryptic |
05 Aug 2022 |
| Tragically, his uncle became his 10 |
The Guardian Quick |
05 Aug 2022 |
| Dramatic prince of Denmark |
Irish Times Simplex |
24 May 2022 |
| Stop me wandering haphazardly through village |
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| Stop me wandering haphazardly through village |
The Guardian Cryptic |
21 Apr 2022 |
| Village hospital has charm but not suitable for everyone |
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| Ophelia's love |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Mar 2022 |
| Community tree is back in Derby? |
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| Perhaps pork's given on hire in village |
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| Terribly useless Methuselah cut a tragic figure |
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| Play by William Shakespeare which features the line "This above all, to thine own self be true" |
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| Ophelia's love |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Sep 2021 |
| Small village tree climbed in Panama? |
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| Small settlement |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 Sep 2021 |
| Small village; play |
The Times Concise |
09 Aug 2021 |
| Small village |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Aug 2021 |
| One acting poorly over rent settlement |
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| Small village |
The Telegraph Quick |
02 Aug 2021 |
| All the same, empties ales from small village |
Irish Times Crosaire |
31 Jul 2021 |
| The Dane |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Apr 2021 |
| Poor actor allowed in drama |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Apr 2021 |
| Drama with restriction on bad actor |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 Feb 2021 |
| Small village |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 Feb 2021 |
| Great role identified by diminutive actor? |
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| Prince a little bit of a pig? |
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| Shakespearean prince of Denmark |
USA Today |
15 Aug 2020 |
| Ophelia's love |
Thomas Joseph |
05 May 2020 |
| A William Shakespeare tragedy |
The Telegraph General Knowledge |
04 May 2020 |
| Small village |
The Times Concise |
19 Apr 2020 |
| The Dane |
The Telegraph Quick |
07 Mar 2020 |
| "___ (Pow, Pow, Pow)" song by The Birthday Party featuring a famous Shakespearean literary character |
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| Prince Fortinbras delivers its last lines |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Dec 2019 |
| He says, "One may smile, and smile, and be a villain" |
The New Yorker |
09 Dec 2019 |
| Small village |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Nov 2019 |
| 1996 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name about a Danish prince and his journey of vengeance, starring Kate Winslet |
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| Small village |
The Guardian Speedy |
08 Sep 2019 |
| Play in a small village |
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| Ranting actor allowed Danish role |
The Telegraph Toughie |
07 Jun 2019 |
| Where the phrase 'To thine own self be true' comes from |
New York Times |
07 Apr 2019 |
| Shakespearean Dane |
USA Today |
04 Apr 2019 |
| 'To be, or not to be' speaker |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Feb 2019 |
| "To be, or not to be" speaker |
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| Shakespearean Dane |
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| Where the phrase "To thine own self be true" comes from |
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| The Prince of Denmark's little village |
Irish Times Simplex |
11 Dec 2018 |
| Play leads to joint restriction |
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| Tiny village |
Eugene Sheffer |
11 Aug 2018 |
| Play in small country community |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
13 Jul 2018 |
| Play with a ghost |
LA Times Daily |
11 May 2018 |
| Play with a ghost |
The Washington Post |
11 May 2018 |
| Village |
LA Times Daily |
02 May 2018 |
| Village |
The Washington Post |
02 May 2018 |
| Who says 'To be, or not to be: that is the question' |
New York Times |
30 Apr 2018 |
| His last words were 'The rest is silence' |
New York Times |
21 Mar 2018 |
| Settlement made by prince in drama |
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| In the morning, 50 entered the mysterious little village |
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| His last words were "The rest is silence" |
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| Village |
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| Play with a ghost |
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| Who says "To be, or not to be: that is the question" |
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| Memorable indecisive Dane |
Newsday |
16 Nov 2017 |
| Small village, one made famous by Shakespeare |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
13 Nov 2017 |
| Bad actor surmounts hindrance to get Shakespearean role |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Oct 2017 |
| 'To be, or not to be' speaker |
New York Times |
28 Aug 2017 |
| 'To be or not to be' soliloquist |
Jonesin |
14 Mar 2017 |
| Where country folk may work and play |
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| Hot meal prepared by Troy's prince |
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| Play |
The Times Concise |
12 Jan 2017 |
| "To be, or not to be" speaker |
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| Conservative abandoning holiday villa, a cluster of houses |
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| Great Dane? |
New York Times |
30 Nov 2016 |
| Play containing the line 'Good night, sweet prince' |
New York Times |
25 Nov 2016 |
| Small settlement for dramatically wronged prince |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Aug 2016 |
| Literary prince of Denmark |
USA Today |
08 Aug 2016 |
| 'To sleep: -------- to dream:' |
The Guardian Speedy |
31 Jul 2016 |
| Small community |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Jan 2016 |
| Literary prince of Denmark |
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| Great Dane? |
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| Play containing the line "Good night, sweet prince" |
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| Amateur allowed in play |
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| Village tragedy |
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| Radio buff rented small place in the country |
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| Dramatic prince of Denmark |
Irish Times Simplex |
07 Oct 2015 |
| ''The rest is silence'' speaker |
Newsday |
05 Sep 2015 |
| Shakespearean tragedy |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Aug 2015 |
| Source of the line 'Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go' |
New York Times |
13 Jun 2015 |
| Speaker of the ends of the answers to starred clues |
LA Times Daily |
03 Jun 2015 |
| Tiny village |
Universal |
27 Apr 2015 |
| Small rural community |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 Mar 2015 |
| Radio operator's allowed in small village |
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| Small settlement |
The Telegraph Quick |
31 Jan 2015 |
| Speaker of the ends of the answers to starred clues |
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| Source of the line "Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go" |
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| One posing a famous question found at the starts of 17-, 27-, 34-, 44-, 52-, and 64-Across |
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| "The rest is silence" speaker |
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| Tiny village |
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| Small village, one made famous by Shakespeare |
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| Exemplar of indecision |
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| "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all" observer |
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| Source of the saying "Brevity is the soul of wit" |
New York Times |
26 Jun 2013 |
| Play in a small village |
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| "Frailty, thy name is woman!" speaker |
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| Speaker of the first syllables of the answers to starred clues |
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| Whence the line "A little more than kin, and less than kind" |
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| Speaker of the first syllables of the answers to starred clues |
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| Source of the saying "Brevity is the soul of wit" |
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| Best Picture of 1948 |
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| "Get thee to a nunnery" speaker |
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| "To be, or not to be" speaker |
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| Shakespeare title character |
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| "To be, or not to be" speaker |
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| Small village |
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| Small village |
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| "Get thee to a nunnery" speaker |
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| Nephew of Claudius |
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| Shakespeare's indecisive one |
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| Claudius' nephew |
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| Claudius' nephew |
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| Whence the phrase "Murder most foul" |
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| Shakespeare's prince of Denmark |
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| Source of the line "Frailty, thy name is woman!" |
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| Shakespearean title character |
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| Play set in Denmark |
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| His last words were "The rest is silence" |
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| Small village |
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| Shakespearean soliloquist |
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| Whence "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" |
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| Small town |
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| His last words were "The rest is silence" |
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| Tiny village |
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| Tiny village |
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| Whence "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" |
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| Classic Olivier role |
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| Shakespeare title character |
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| Whence "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" |
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| Whence the line "To sleep: perchance to dream" |
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| Gielgud role |
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| Whence the phrase "Brevity is the soul of wit" |
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| "To be or not to be" speaker |
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| Dogpatch, for one |
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| Small village |
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| Tchaikovsky fantasy-overture |
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| Elsinore Castle resident |
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| Friend of Horatio |
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| Shakespeare's Prince of Denmark |
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| "To be or not to be" soliloquist |
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| Tiny village |
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| Village |
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| Classic Olivier role |
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| Shakespearean prince |
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| Best Picture of 1948 |
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| Very small town |
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| It's smaller than a village |
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| It's smaller than a village |
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| Friend of Laertes |
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| "To be, or not to be" speaker |
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| Role for Branagh |
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| Ophelia's love |
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| Village |
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| "... heaven hath pleas'd it so, / To punish me ..." speaker |
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| Nephew of Claudius |
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| Work of 1604 |
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| Friend of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern |
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| Dogpatch, for one |
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| Vacillating Dane |
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| Ophelia's love |
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| Ophelia's love |
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| Dane of fame |
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| Gertrude's son |
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| Melancholy Dane |
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| Queen Gertrude's son |
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| Source of quotation |
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| Olivier film: 1948 |
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| Coveted role for a thespian |
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| Best Picture, 1948 |
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| Village |
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| Opera by Thomas |
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| Noble vacillator |
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| Whistle stop |
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| Well-known Dane |
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| Elsinore name |
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| Work by 3 Down |
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| Tragedian's role |
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| Great Dane |
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| Dramatic role. |
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| Man of Denmark. |
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| Son of Gertrude. |
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| Prince of drama. |
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| 1602 production, off-Broadway. |
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| Lawrence Olivier's most famous movie role. |
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| Dane. |
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| Small town. |
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| Small town |
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| "Good Night, Sweet Prince." |
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| Slayer of Polonius. |
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| Village. |
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