Where could I go to get a good discussion of Hamlets famous soliloquy?
Answer Hi Don, There are literally hundreds, or maybe even thousands, of discussions of this, most famous of Shakespeare’s soliloquies. Lots of books on “Hamlet” and each on has at least some discussion of “to be or not to be”. “The Cambridge Student Guide to Hamlet”, New Casebook’s “Hamlet” (contemporary critical essays) edited by Martin Coyle, Isaac Asimov’s “Azimov’s Guide to Shakespeare”, and any of the Shakespeare for Dummy’s and the like, each have thoughts on the soliloquy, though you have to wade through them a bit to find them. Online, a google search for Hamlet soliloquy yields a number of appropriate sites: http://www.theenglishtutor.com/tobe.html – has a nice essay on an alternative interpretation to the usual suicide approach. http://www.netessays.net/viewpaper/20959.html – net essays may have something for you – no plaguerism allowed! http://shakespeare.about.com/library/weekly/aa061500c.htm – this site gives you the soliloquy, notes and explanations of various parts of i
