Hamlet's famous soliloquy, by William Shakespeare. This extract includes the little scene after the soliloquy with Ophelia, all the way to "Enter King and Polonius". Kevin Kline ... Hamlet Diane Venora ... Ophelia from a 1990 TV broadcast Hamlet: To be, or not to be : that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say ...