Hamasaki's first song to be composed by Do as Infinity composer DAI, "To Be" was unable to reach the top position on the Oricon, unlike its predecessor.
William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, published by Isaac Jaggard and Ed Blount in 1623 and better known as the "First Folio", includes an edition of Hamlet largely similar to the Second Quarto.
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The first edition of Hamlet in print, the 1603 "First Quarto" printed by Valentine Simmes for Nicholas Ling's bookshop, has a shorter and more direct version of the speech.
The plays of William Shakespeare feature many soliloquies, the most famous being the "To be, or not to be" speech in Hamlet.
In the Reduced Shakespeare Company's production The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), the more famous solliloquy, "To be, or not to be," is omitted from the Hamlet portion of the production, not for time constraints, or because the speech is so well known, but because the group states that they dislike the speech for momentum and motivation reasons.