| To Be, or, Like, Maybe Not
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| Tapped Out Quest Information
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To Be, or, Like, Maybe Not is a premium questline in The Simpsons: Tapped Out. It was introduced in the Heaven Won't Wait content update. It requires Shakespeare to be obtained.
Dialogue[edit]
| After tapping on Shakespeare's exclamation mark
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Thanks for agreeing to do this signing at my store, Mr. Shakespeare. It's a huge honor.
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I've always felt like Radioactive Man was a modern day commentary on Hamlet.
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I...know not what that means, but it is truly inspiring to see all the colorful variety of these modern bards, unrestrained as they are from having to please uptight royals.
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In fact, I'm especially pleased to see so many works that are merely new renditions of mine own. I'm really looking forward to collecting these...what do you call them? "Royalties"!
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Well actually, that's not gonna be a thing for you. You see, your works are in what we call "the public domain".
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The domain of the public is the gutter. What has that to do with my impending riches?
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Oh boy. I guess I should explain a few things...
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Task: "Make Comic Book Guy Explain Copyright Law". The job takes place at the Android's Dungeon or Candy Heaven and takes 4 hours.
Task: "Make Shakespeare Be Confused by Copyright Law". The job takes place at the Android's Dungeon or Candy Heaven and takes 4 hours.
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Quest reward:  100 and  10
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| After tapping on Shakespeare's exclamation mark
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This is an outrage! Other lesser writers can in essence copy my work and then make royalties from their meager efforts, while I can claim no recompense?
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You realize that we're aware that almost all of your plays were based on earlier works by other authors who you never compensated, right?
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Zounds! That's, uh, a very different matter indeed!
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How's that?
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Because I was a better writer than they were.
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You know, you might not be able to able to claim royalties anyway. A lot of scholars now think that you didn't really write any of your plays.
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WHAT? Where are these vile haters! Stand them before me now and there shall be an accounting!
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"Haters"?
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I may have let him browse the internet for a while.
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| Task: "Make Shakespeare Look for Haters". The job takes 4 hours.
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| Quest reward: 100 and 10
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| After tapping on Shakespeare's exclamation mark
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Next on the docket, "W. Shakespeare v. Haters and Thieves". Is this a joke?
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It is not, Your Honor! 'Tis a tragedy most foul!
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And may I say how I am pleasantly surprised to see a Moor occupying such a prestigious position as yours.
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What?!
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Your Honor, on behalf of anyone with even a moderate understanding of modern copyright law, we request that the plaintiff's case be dismissed with extreme prejudice.
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He's right, Mr. Shakespeare. How do you respond?
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"Why, may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillities, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?"
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"All scholars, lawyers, courtiers, gentlemen, they call false caterpillars, and intend their death."
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Your Honor, he's just quoting lines insulting lawyers.
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"A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen as you are toss'd with!"
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Your Honor, now he's insulting my spleen.
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| Task: "Make Shakespeare Pontificate in Court". The job takes 4 hours.
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In closing, Your Honor, "If I were covetous, ambitious or perverse, as he will have me, how am I so poor?"
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That's just another quotation of your own work, Mr. Shakespeare. I'm throwing your case out, and I would suggest you not refile it!
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"Blessed fig's end!"
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| Quest reward: 100 and 10
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| After tapping on Shakespeare's exclamation mark
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I'm sorry your court case didn't go your way. What will you do now, Mr. Shakespeare?
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I shall set quill to parchment once more and draft new great works as only I can!
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By plumbing the depths of your imagination to find new, original story ideas?
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Something like that.
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| Task: "Make Shakespeare Draft "New" Stories". The job takes place at Springfield Library or Candy Heaven and takes 4 hours.
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"Two Dragons of King's Landing"? "The Fast and the Furious: Much Ado About Family"?
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"All's Well That Endgames Well"?
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You're just ripping off stories that everybody already knows and likes!
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Exactly!
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I love it! Two thumbs up!
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Oh, that's a marvelous turn of phrase! Let me write that down...
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| Quest reward: 200 and 20
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Behind the Laughter[edit]
The quest name is a reference to the phrase "to be, or not to be" from the Shakespeare play Hamlet.
