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English Lit is a shortened form of "English Literature. " This is usually a set of classes in university. In high school, it may be covered in a year or a unit.
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so long?

Well, I know this role has real cachet
Branagh, Olivier, and Gibson all played the role of Hamlet in different movies that are the play and are called "Hamlet."
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Ophelia is not a pet like a dog or a cat. When "pet" is said here, it means that Ophelia is Hamlet's girlfriend.
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wardrobe gone?
Now, do you believe in English Lit?
Is brevity the soul of wit
This phrase is used in Act-2, Scene-2, lines 86-92 in the famous play, Hamlet. It is spoken by one of its characters, Polonius. It goes thus; It is funny because Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play. The play is not brief, and yet it contains this line stating that to be witty, a saying or a story should be short.
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day King Hamlet died

So:
To be or
This references Hamlet's soliloquy in Hamlet. It is a debate if he is truly deciding if he should live or if he is acting this way to try to fool others. To be or to choose not to be?
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a thing as weird
As when
Hamlet's father comes as a ghost to say that his brother (Hamlet's uncle) poisoned him in order to become king. Some guards are the first to see the ghost and them Hamlet sees it, too.
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Elisinor is the castle in Denmark where Hamlet lived. He lived there with his mother, the queen, and his father as well as his uncle who killed his father by putting poison in his ear.
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