Possible Clues:

• Hamlet's rest, appropriately in this?
• Librarian's exhortation
• Losing heart, live in past still
• 'Golden' state
• Still, it can't be heard, in a manner of speaking
• Put an end to the rest of Hamlet?
• No talking, because digesting article abroad
• Awfully senile, being about 100 and quiet
• Gag being about the French
• No talking after digesting French article