Saturday, February 14, 2026

Shakespeare Reference in The Unspeakable People

The Unspeakable People is a collection of short horror stories from the late 1700s into the 1900s. One story, Ray Bradbury's "The Shape Of Things," contains a reference to Hamlet. The story is about a couple whose baby was born into another dimension and so appears and sounds strange to them. Bradbury writes: "Won't it be nice when he learns to talk later? We'll give him Hamlet's soliloquy to memorise and he'll say it but it'll come out, 'Wheely-roth-urll whee whistle wheet!'" (p. 175). The Unspeakable People was edited by Peter Haining, and was published in 1969.

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