“What’s Hecuba to him?” Hamlet asks. “Or he to Hecuba that he should weep for her?” What, for that matter, is Hecuba to us? That we, too, should weep? The answer may be a great deal indeed. Hamlet’s ...

When William Shakespeare penned “Hamlet” around the turn of the 17th century, he probably never imagined his words would one day grace the base of a statue at USC as part of a $700-million project.

A quote attributed to William Shakespeare is seen on the base of a statue of Hecuba on USC's campus. AP LOS ANGELES — Visitors to the University of Southern California might well be muttering, “What ...

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