Hamlet, Act IV, scene 4: “O, From This Time Forth My Thoughts Be Bloody Or Be Nothing Worth!”: Brush Up Your Shakespeare: 017

This scene contains one of the most brilliant soliloquies in the all of Shakespeare, and it doesn’t start with, “To be or not to be”!

Hamlet realizes he has been thinking about revenging his father’s murder too long, and now resolves to take action to kill the King, his uncle, Claudius!