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We go to gain a little patch of ground That hath in it no profit but the name. — William Shakespeare

Play · Tragedy (play)

We go to gain a little patch of ground That hath in it no profit but the name.

William Shakespeare
Hamlet · 1616
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Topic
Absurdity of warWar
Genre
Tragedy (play)
Medium
Play
Time
1616The Renaissance
Person
William Shakespeare
Provenance
Current citation
Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 4.
Original citation
Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 4.

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