Shakespeare / Twain: Hamlet’s Soliloquy

400 years ago today: April 23, 1616, William Shakespeare died . . . for the first time.
 
He has endured many subsequent “deaths” over the past four centuries (I may have been an accomplice in one or two of them myself), including this classic atrocity depicted by Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, wherein The Duke - an itinerant Actor and Con Man (the two professions are not mutually exclusive) - recites the famous Soliloquy from Hamlet . . . as he remembers it.
 
Stand back Ladies and Gentlemen, whilst I hammer yet another nail into the coffin . . .

Illustration: E.W. Kemble