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I love this scene in Only Lovers Left Alive. Despite Christopher Marlowe's obvious antipathy towards his rival William Shakespeare, he greets Adam's appearance at his deathbed with a line from Hamlet -- "What a piece of work is a man?" To which Adam responds -- "This quintessence of dust" -- from the same monologue. Since Marlowe would be unlikely to quote the words of a despised rival, the implication is that he is actually quoting himself -- as the "true author" of Shakespeare's plays.
A nice nod to an old literary controversy.
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