&quote;Who's There?&quote; in Shakespeare's Hamlet

The question of HAMLET -- one of the most renowned plays by probably the greatest playwright of all time, William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) -- is not "e;To be, or not to be."e; Although perhaps the most famous of all questions ever asked in dramatic literature (and whose meaning theatergoers and scholars have long debated), the answer to the question "e;to be, or not to be"e; is by no means certain (even when we ourselves feel quite positive that we know what the question is actually asking).