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This Second Nun jumps right into her tale, cautioning her listeners to beware of Idleness.  Reason teaches us to shun this pastime, as it ma...

Hamlet  ~~ Act III  Scene III Claudius concludes that Hamlet is too dangerous to be allowed to remain in Denmark and employs Rosencran...

The Play Scene (1897) Edwin Austen Abbey source Yale University Art Gallery Hamlet  ~~ Act III  Scene II Hamlet gives extremely ...

"Today I consider it my good fortune that Fate designated Braunau on the Inn as the place of my birth." Written in 1925, Hitle...

Statue of Hamlet from the monument to William Shakespeare, Stratford-Upon-Avon source Wiki Hamlet  ~~  Act III  Scene I Claudiu...

Poster for the premiere of Hamlet at the Paris Opéra, 1868 source Wikipedia Hamlet  ~  Act II  Scene II Claudius summon...

(Note:  The Word of the Knight to the Host  at the end of  The Monk's Tale in my edition [the Penguin Classics edition] in other edi...