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What a piece of work is a man
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<p>"What a piece of work is a man!" is a phrase within a monologue by <a href="/facts/Prince_Hamlet/gSRl8guK">Prince Hamlet</a> in <a href="/facts/William_Shakespeare/ohI96JTv">William Shakespeare</a>'s play <i><a href="/facts/Hamlet/fm6AnR17">Hamlet</a></i>. Hamlet is reflecting, at first admiringly, and then despairingly, on the <a href="/facts/Human_condition/trY462FK">human condition</a>. The speech is recited at the end of the film <i><a href="/facts/Withnail_and_I/pK4yQnnF">Withnail and I</a></i> and the text was set to music by <a href="/facts/Galt_MacDermot/A73jXQL4">Galt MacDermot</a> for the rock opera <i><a href="/facts/Hair_(musical)/tdr4K7Eb">Hair</a></i> </p>