Shakespeares Richard Third?

[jayceebee191]

Who Said" To be or notr to be that is the question/ I think its from RichaRD 3RD. Hubby says no. Please help this dispute. Thanks

[shaneystar2]

To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them... To die, to sleep etc etc

Hamlet

[MustafaTickl]

The essenceof this monologue by Hamlet is that life is so wretched that complete non-existence would be decidedly preferable;

"For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all."

[jno]

In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.

... which is said to be an anagram of the first three lines, though I haven't checked.