2B or not 2B Pencil

Hamlet’s question. Stationery’s answer.

“2B or not 2B.” For the Shakespeare reader who spots the pun before they’ve picked up the pencil, this is a small pleasure for the desk. White-foil lettering on a black barrel gives the famous line from Hamlet a rather more practical dilemma.

Keep it beside your reading journal for a passage worth noting, a thought worth chasing or the beginnings of your own soliloquy. It is, in fact, a 2B pencil. One existential question settled before you’ve even started writing.

Details

• By Shakespeare’s Globe
• One 2B wooden pencil supplied
• Black barrel with “2B or not 2B” hand-stamped in white foil
• Black metal fitting and black eraser
• Hand-stamped in Scotland
• Wordplay inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Perfect for

• The Shakespeare reader who enjoys a literary pun in the margins
• The theatre devotee whose rehearsal notes need a little Hamlet
• The writer who prefers their first drafts in pencil and their dilemmas on stage