What a piece of work is a man What a piece of work is a man "What a piece of work is man!" is a phrase within a soliloquy by Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Hamlet is reflecting, at first admiringly, and then despairingly, on the human condition. The soliloquy, spoken in the play by Prince Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Act II, Scene 2, follows in its entirety. Rather than appearing in blank verse, the typical mode of composition of Shakespeare's plays, the speech appears in straight prose: Hamlet is saying that although humans may appear to think and act "nobly"
A Grin Without a Cat two parts of one- hour-and-a-half each, the first titled "Fragile Hands" and the second titled "Severed Hands". The film premiered theatrically in the US in 2002. J. Hoberman reviewed the film for "The Village Voice", and wrote that "Marker begins by evoking "Battleship Potemkin", and although hardly agitprop, "A Grin Without a Cat" is in that tradition—a montage film with a mass hero. Unlike Eisenstein, however, Marker isn't out to invent historical truth so much as to look for it." The critic wrote that the film "reaches its emotional peak with the hopeful New Left demonstrations that swept Europe in