What Shakespeare quotes are in Huckleberry Finn?
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What Shakespeare quotes are in Huckleberry Finn?
As far as I can remember there are not many exact quotes from Shakespeare works.
There are, however, many allusions to Shakespeare and misquotations of his works e.g.
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Hamlet
- King Lear
- Macbeth
The most prominent misquotation was taken from the greatest Shakespearean soliloquy (Hamlet) - "To be, or not to be".
I'm just holding my copy of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and it goes like this:
(Chapter 20)
...and so on ;)Quote:
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsiname,
But that the fear of something after death
Murders the innocent sleep,
Great nature's second course,
And makes us rather sling the arrow of outrageous fortune...