Speaking clearly. Improving voice and articulation: Фонетический практикум. Фомиченко Л.Г. - 81 стр.

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Ernst insists on realism. «Tell it like it is», is his motto. One day Ernst
decided to paint a picture of his backyard and garden. There were eight
rather large trees in the yard, but the artist decided that if he included
all eight of them, it would clutter his painting, so he painted only
seven. His wife came out to look at the completed work of art. «But
Phil, darling!» she said. «Where’s that missing tree? There are eight
trees, but you painted only seven.» And what did Phil do? Paint in
the missing tree? No! He took an axe and cut down the extra tree!
                                L.V. Mayer. Fundamentals of Voice and
                                   Articulation: Eleventh Edition. Brown
                         and Benchmark Publishers, 1996. P. 231—233.

                     PHRASING AND PAUSES
      Almost every actor from Lassie to Rambo wants to play Hamlet,
one reason being that it’s the longest part — 1,422 lines — in any one
of Shakespeare’s plays. The popular Hamlets of Richard Burton, Laurence
Olivier, Richard Chamberlain, and Kevin Kline have been greeted
with standing ovations, and other Hamlets with hisses and boos….
      Hamlet’s most universal moment is his famous meditation on
death, the «To be or not to be... » soliloquy. Recordings of Burton,
Olivier, and others are available. If you have a chance to listen to any
of them, you’ll notice curious differences in the length and location
of pauses.
      ...Burton delivered a different performance each night! On three
consecutive evenings he gave completely dissimilar readings of the
soliloquy:
      To be         or not to be          that is the question.
      To be or not to be          that is the question.
      To be or not to be          that         is the question.
      Which is the most effective? Probably none is better than the
others. Taste alone, not rules, can decide. As long as clarity is pre-
served and the desired emphasis is achieved, a group of words can be
phrased with the accompanying pauses in several ways.
      Nevertheless, something tells us that we might be annoyed at
any of these readings:
      Tî       be or not to          be that is the question.
      To be or not         to be         that is the question.
      (With no pauses at all) Tobeornottobethatisthequestion.