What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her?

– William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2. Hamlet has watched a tearful player perform a speech about the slaughter of King Priam and grief of his widow Queen Hecuba at the end of the Trojan War. Hamlet thinks it is monstrous that the player can weep for a fictitious woman from Greek mythology. But in reality he is disgusted with his own performance as the revenger of his father’s murder.