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Hecuba
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Definition:Wife to King Priam of Troy & mother of Hector, Paris and Cassandra.In the Illiad she laments her husband's death, and Shakespeare's Hamlet is relating to her lamentation.
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What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her? What would he do,
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have? He would drown the stage with tears
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech;
William Shakespeare. Hamlet.
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Why do you come here? What do you want with the monks here, allow me to ask you? What is Hecuba to you or you to Hecuba? It's another farce, another amusement for you, another sacrilege against human dignity, and nothing more.
Anton Chekhov. The Duel and other stories.
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