To keep this sequence handier, we've separated the main Contributors A-Z index; items by the Franson family; and those by founding contributor William H. Stoddard — we are very glad of the opportunity to present so much of his fine work.

Where the entry is for a review, the creator of the reviewed work — writer, editor, director, lead actor — is named in the right-hand column. For alternate sequences, see Book reviews by Author, or Book reviews by Title, Recent updates, or others listed in the General Contents; below is by Contributor and Title.

  
[A guard platform at Elsinore Castle, Denmark.]

Marcellus:

What, has this thing appeared again tonight?

Barnardo:

I have seen nothing.

Marcellus:

Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,
And will not let belief take hold of him
Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us.
Therefore I have entreated him along
With us to watch the minutes of this night,
That if again this apparition come
He may approve our eyes and speak to it.
...

Barnardo:

Last night of all,
When yon same star that's westward from the pole
Had made his course t'illume that part of heaven
Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,
The bell then beating one —

[Enter the Ghost.]

Marcellus:

Peace, break thee off. Look where it comes again.

Barnardo:

In the same figure like the King that's dead.

Marcellus [to Horatio]:

Thou art a scholar — speak to it, Horatio.

William Shakespeare
Hamlet, 1.1.19-27 & 33-40

  
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