The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word…

“It may take a decade or two before the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration passes from the graduate seminar to the undergraduate lecture, and finally…

— James Shapiro

One of the wonderful things about Shakespeare is that he trusted an audience to move quickly with him. One moment tragedy, the next comedy.

— Mariette Hartley

But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make…

— John Constable

We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.

— Jeanette Winterson

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

— William Shakespeare

Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees…

— Virginia Woolf

But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this…

— Rhys Ifans

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

— Umberto Eco

I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every one of…

— Amos Oz

What light through yonder window breaks?

— William Shakespeare

“Elizabethan cookbooks included not only carving instructions, but the proper terminology for each type of meat such as “breake that deer, leach that brawn,…

— Francine Segan

I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just for the…

— Virginia Henley

Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or eventhe Elizabethan men. But…

— Henry David Thoreau

“...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...”

— John Geddes

Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth.

— George Fetherling