<Li> In the vampire film Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), directed by Jim Jarmusch, parts of the monologue are quoted . Notably, Adam (Tom Hiddleston) utters "quintessence of dust" at the death bed of the vampire Marlowe . The plot includes the suggestion that the latter was the original author of the Shakespeare oeuvre, as some eccentric critics have argued . </Li> <Ul> <Li> In the 1967 rock musical Hair, numerous lyrics are derived from Hamlet, most notably a song titled "What a Piece of Work is Man", which uses much of the speech verbatim . </Li> <Li> In the Reduced Shakespeare Company's production The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), the more famous solliloquy, "To be, or not to be," is omitted from the Hamlet portion of the production, not for time constraints, or because the speech is so well known, but because the group states that they dislike the speech for momentum and motivation reasons . The "What a piece of work is a man" speech is delivered in its stead . </Li> </Ul> <Li> In the 1967 rock musical Hair, numerous lyrics are derived from Hamlet, most notably a song titled "What a Piece of Work is Man", which uses much of the speech verbatim . </Li> <Li> In the Reduced Shakespeare Company's production The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), the more famous solliloquy, "To be, or not to be," is omitted from the Hamlet portion of the production, not for time constraints, or because the speech is so well known, but because the group states that they dislike the speech for momentum and motivation reasons . The "What a piece of work is a man" speech is delivered in its stead . </Li>

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