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British author HM Forsyth was working on a book in the British Library last week when he needed to read Shakespeare's Hamlet, so he did what anyone would do these days: he Googled it, safe in the knowledge that MIT has put the Bard's entire output online. And that's when something nasty happened: The Library's WiFi denied him …

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  1. Stevie

    Bah!

    Dollars to dimes this was yet another overly collective regex at work rather than a clever detection of various subject matters buried in the tortuous iambic pentameter and archaic phrasing.

    Sigh.

  2. Mike 16

    Polonius is neither Hamlet nor Shakespeare

    That last bit of the article ("to thine own self be true...") was written by Will (or Francis :-), but the words were put in the mouth of Polonius, and were intended (AFAIK) to lampoon the sort of pretentious twaddle dished out by self-help gurus then as now. The fact that they are _still_ quoted, without irony, but such folks just proves the bard's point. But I would have expected Brit journos to have actually seen, or read, the play they are quoting.

    1. graeme leggett Silver badge

      Re: Polonius is neither Hamlet nor Shakespeare

      "But I would have expected Brit journos to have actually seen, or read, the play they are quoting"

      To rework another Shakespeare quote "The commentator doth expect too much, methinks"

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