# Result number

Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

Character Indicates who said the line. If it's a play or sonnet, the character name is "Poet."

Line Shows where the line falls within the work.

The numbering is not keyed to any copyrighted numbering system found in a volume of collected works (Arden, Oxford, etc.) The numbering starts at the beginning of the work, and does not restart for each scene.

Text The line's full text, with keywords highlighted within it, unless highlighting has been disabled by the user.

1

Hamlet
[II, 2]

Guildenstern

1356

Which dreams indeed are ambition; for the very substance of
the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

2

Hamlet
[II, 2]

Hamlet

1358

A dream itself is but a shadow.

3

Hamlet
[II, 2]

Rosencrantz

1359

Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that
it is but a shadow's shadow.