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To Be or Not to Be

William Shakespeare
Contents (40)
  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. A Note on the Text
  4. Two Gentlemen of Verona
  5. The Taming of the Shrew
  6. Henry VI Part 2
  7. Henry VI Part 3
  8. Titus Andronicus
  9. Henry VI Part 1
  10. Richard III
  11. Love’s Labour’s Lost
  12. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  13. Romeo and Juliet
  14. Richard II
  15. King John
  16. Henry IV Part 1
  17. Henry IV Part 2
  18. Much Ado About Nothing
  19. Henry V
  20. Julius Caesar
  21. As You Like It
  22. Hamlet
  23. Twelfth Night
  24. Troilus and Cressida
  25. Sir Thomas More
  26. Measure for Measure
  27. Othello
  28. All’s Well That Ends Well
  29. Timon of Athens
  30. King Lear
  31. Macbeth
  32. Antony and Cleopatra
  33. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
  34. Coriolanus
  35. The Winter’s Tale
  36. Cymbeline
  37. The Tempest
  38. Henry VIII
  39. The Two Noble Kinsmen
  40. Index of First Lines

PENGUIN BOOKS

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

Born in Liverpool and educated at Oxford, Michael Kerrigan is a freelance writer and journalist, reviewing regularly for The Times Literary Supplement and the Scotsman. His books include Who Lies Where: A Guide to Famous Graves (1995) and The Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen (1996). He now lives in Edinburgh.

To Be or Not to Be

SHAKESPEARE’S SOLILOQUIES

Edited by Michael Kerrigan

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First published 2002

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Introduction and editorial matter © Michael Kerrigan, 2002

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ISBN: 978-0-14-192832-6

Contents

Introduction

A Note on the Text

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Nay, ’twill be this hour ere I have done weeping

Even as one heat another heat expels,

To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn;

How use doth breed a habit in a man!

The Taming of the Shrew

Thus have I politicly begun my reign,

Henry VI Part 2

Anjou and Maine are given to the French;

Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts,

Henry VI Part 3

The army of the Queen hath got the field;

This battle fares like to the morning’s war,

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.

Ay, Edward will use women honourably.

What! Will the aspiring blood of Lancaster

Titus Andronicus

Now climbeth Tamora Olympus’ top,

Henry VI Part 1

My thoughts are whirlèd like a potter’s wheel;

Well didst thou, Richard, to suppress thy voice;

Richard III

Now is the winter of our discontent

Was ever woman in this humour wooed?

Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds!

Love’s Labour’s Lost

And I, forsooth, in love!

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

How happy some o’er other some can be!

Romeo and Juliet

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?

O Romeo, Romeo! – wherefore art thou Romeo?

Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,

Richard II

I have been studying how I may compare