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 ===Chinese popularity=== 
 In case this section ever comes back to the article (it should probably go into some article about Hamlet, really), I'll just note here that this soliloquy is by far the most famous piece of Shakespeare in modern China. Now, that has to do with the fact that Chinese culture is built on puns: "to be" sounds like "two be" which can be written "2B" which (in Chinese) is pronounced "RB" (B) which sounds like  which is the (somewhat) politer version of  which technically means "double c***" but (thanks to the Chinese equivalents of "dumb c***") is used in the sense of "f***in' idiot". 2B or not 2B... —  10:21, 13 December 2013