Hamlet/characters

Famous quotes containing the words hamlet and/or characters:

    “Let four captains
    Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage,
    For he was likely, had he been put on,
    To have proved most royally.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has....”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)