This song is soo kick ass. I have listened to it so many times and it still floors me every time! All of the shakespeare refrences specifically to Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's dying speech. And "The Rest is Silence" is from Hamlet. The refrences to Hamlet can be found threaded through the entire show most blatently in "What a Piece of Work is Man". These refrences really help to deepen the questions possed by the show and hit the point home :-)
This song is soo kick ass. I have listened to it so many times and it still floors me every time! All of the shakespeare refrences specifically to Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's dying speech. And "The Rest is Silence" is from Hamlet. The refrences to Hamlet can be found threaded through the entire show most blatently in "What a Piece of Work is Man". These refrences really help to deepen the questions possed by the show and hit the point home :-)