To be or not to be of good fame, that is the question
Duels are a breach of the peace, punished for centuries under the Justices of the Peace Act, 1361, which however may or may not contain the word not. This may be the background to Hamlet's soliloquy, To be or not to be, which is not a suicide speech: Hamlet knew that self-slaughter was forbidden, and none of the three actors listening to him, Ophelia, Claudius and Polonius, interpreted it as a suicide speech.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Southern African Society of Legal Historians and Unisa Press
2016
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1021-545X2016000200006 |
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