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It isn't "taken" from anywhere, Shakespeare wrote it.

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Q: What scene is hamlet is the phrase to be or not to be taken from?
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What scene in hemlet is the phrase to be or not to be taken from?

The phrase "To be, or not to be..." comes from Act III, Scene i, as the opening line to the most famous soliloquy in all of the Shakespearean canon. Hamlet has just entered the stage, and the King and Polonius have just exited--there is a strong suggestion that they can hear what Hamlet is saying, ostensibly aloud to himself.


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