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The line "To be or not to be..." is from Hamlet.

Dating of Shakespeare's plays is an uncertain science but most scholars consider it was written sometime between 1598 and 1603.

Shakespeare was born in 1564 so he would have been aged 36 to 39 when Hamlet was written.

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