To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Some days it seems I've done as much as I can here and I think I'll go and try my luck in… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
Things happen in 'If This is a Man' that are beyond ordinary daily experience, but it is still us to whom they… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“[Addams’s] idea was that the conflict between Pullman and his workers was analogous to the conflict between King Lear and his daughter… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
I was in King Lear with Sir Tom Courtenay at The Royal Exchange in Manchester. In fact, that's where I met my… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
“It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of original training. Either the work lies… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Sterling Memorial, the main library at Yale, had been built to resemble a Gothic cathedral, replete with stained glass, carved stonework, and… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“He waved his hand; and it was as though, with an invisible feather wisk, he had brushed away a little dust, and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“He got up. It was too early to go to bed; at least, he was not in the mood for it. He… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Don’t be fooled by clever hands, sir” the Sunlight Man said. He’d be lying with the back of his head on his… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and… — John Russell Copy Share Image
I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I feel like I've been on EastEnders all my life and now I'm playing King Lear. — Ian Holloway Copy Share Image
The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.' — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish. — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
“As Shakespeare put it in 'King Lear,' the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
![“[Addams’s] idea was that the conflict between Pullman and his workers was analogous to the conflict between King Lear and his daughter Cordelia in Shakespeare’s play: an old set of values, predicated on individualism and paternalism, had run up against a new set of values, predicated on mutuality…” quote by Louis Menand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1b4/louis-menand-8583_war_addams-s-idea-was-that-the-conflict-betw_2682941.jpg)
