The title character of this play muses about shuffling "off this mortal coil" and "to sleep, perchance to dream" in a famous soliloquy.
One character in this play has his skill with the rapier praised by Lamond, a great Norman horseman; that character incites the protagonist to predict "The cat will mew, and dog will have his day." John Updike reinterpreted the implied adultery in this work as sympathetic true love in a work drawing from the original (*) Saxo Grammaticus source. T.S. Eliot called this work an "artistic failure" in an essay about its title character's "Problems." The title character of this play muses about shuffling "off this mortal coil" and "to sleep, perchance to dream" in a famous soliloquy. For 10 points, name this inspiration for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a Shakespeare play also featuring Gertrude and Claudius.
One character in this play has his skill with the rapier praised by Lamond, a great Norman horseman; that character incites the protagonist to predict "The cat will mew, and dog will have his day."
The Tragedy of {Hamlet}, Prince of Denmark