After hearing an actor's speech, this character asks, "What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?" in a speech calling himself a "rogue and peasant slave." This character claims that he could be confined to a nutshell and count himself "a king of infinite space," if not for his bad dreams. The work this character appears in is called "most certainly an artistic failure" in a T. S. Eliot essay about this character's problems. This protagonist calls another character a "fishmonger" and later stabs him through an arras. This character kills Polonius and loses his love interest, Ophelia. For 10 points, name this prince of Denmark from a Shakespeare t
After hearing an actor's speech, this character asks, "What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?" in a speech calling himself a "rogue and peasant slave." This character claims that he could be confined to a nutshell and count himself "a king of infinite space," if not for his bad dreams. The work this character appears in is called "most certainly an artistic failure" in a T. S. Eliot essay about this character's problems. This protagonist calls another character a "fishmonger" and later stabs him through an arras. This character kills Polonius and loses his love interest, Ophelia. For 10 points, name this prince of Denmark from a Shakespeare tragedy.
After hearing an actor's speech, this character asks, "What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?" in a speech calling himself a "rogue and peasant slave.
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark