Lorick #142, to confound and confusticate! am I human or am I brute? you can see I&#39;m quite strong and hirsute... I have lunar affection - by some called an affliction - I&#39;m no alchemist, although I transmute

1421: Clue #142, am I human or am I brute

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Try this Lorick on for size:

A tempestuous prince was misled
by incestuous king, hast'ly wed
there's a ghost, and a play,
and soliloquies fey...
in the end, nearly everyone's dead!

Hint: his father ghosted him.

Answer: Hamlet! Get it?

Lorick's host? Me, Yorick! Most soliloquized skull of all time! 

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