" The central character swaps execution letters before entering England, leading to the deaths of two friends from Wittenberg, (*) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
One character in this play demands that he be covered as well in his father's funeral, and commands, "Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead." Another character in this play mourns how his mother had "followed my poor father's body Like Niobe" before remarking, "frailty, thy name is woman." The central character swaps execution letters before entering England, leading to the deaths of two friends from Wittenberg, (*) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. During his duel with Laertes, the title character kills his uncle Claudius. For ten points, name this Shakespearean tragedy about a Prince of Denmark who asks, "to be or not to be."
One character in this play demands that he be covered as well in his father's funeral, and commands, "Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead."
The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark