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title: "99 King Lear Quotes by 87 authors"
description: "Browse 99 King Lear quotes by 87 authors. Discover the best King Lear sayings and thoughts."
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> [One time, I had to do Edgar in 'King Lear' and Owl in 'Winnie the Pooh' on the same day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-pryce/one-time-i-had-to-do-edgar-in-king-lear-and-owl-in-winnie-the-pooh-on/)

[Jonathan Pryce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-pryce/)

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> [O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/o-let-me-kiss-that-hand-king-lear-let-me-wipe-it-first-it-smells-of/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-moore/i-ve-made-a-dog-s-breakfast-of-english-history-geography-king-lear/)

[Christopher Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-moore/)

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> [Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-callow/shakespeare-wrote-all-there-is-that-we-need-to-know-about-dementia-in/)

[Simon Callow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-callow/)

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> [When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-wilson/when-you-re-playing-king-lear-you-have-to-have-a-little-humour-or-you/)

[Robert Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-wilson/)

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> [I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainn-wilson/i-want-to-keel-over-on-stage-playing-king-lear-at-age-99-or-something/)

[Rainn Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainn-wilson/)

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> [“He would read King Lear and forget this filthy century.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/he-would-read-king-lear-and-forget-this-filthy-century/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

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> [I feel like I've been on EastEnders all my life and now I'm playing King Lear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-holloway/i-feel-like-i-ve-been-on-eastenders-all-my-life-and-now-i-m-playing/)

[Ian Holloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-holloway/)

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> [It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scofield/it-isn-t-difficult-to-leave-king-lear-or-macbeth-but-once-you-have/)

[Paul Scofield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-scofield/)

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> [King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare — or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scofield/king-lear-is-undoubtedly-the-greatest-play-ever-written-by/)

[Paul Scofield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-scofield/)

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> [“Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound... { His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare }”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-friedrich-gauss/thou-nature-art-my-goddess-to-thy-laws-my-services-are-bound-his/)

[Carl Friedrich Gauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-friedrich-gauss/)

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> [I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mckellen/i-used-to-think-king-lear-was-an-analysis-of-insanity-but-i-don-t/)

[Ian Mckellen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mckellen/)

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> [“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-l-rio/but-that-is-how-a-tragedy-like-ours-or-king-lear-breaks-your-heart-by/)

[M.L. Rio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-l-rio/)

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> [I just looked preposterous. It would be 'King Lear' and I'd walk on with Cordelia's dead body in my arms and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-coles/i-just-looked-preposterous-it-would-be-king-lear-and-i-d-walk-on-with/)

[Richard Coles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-coles/)

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> [Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-elliot-altman/counterfeit-kings-is-the-king-lear-of-space-operas-science-fiction/)

[Steven-Elliot Altman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-elliot-altman/)

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> [If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mckellen/if-you-are-playing-king-lear-you-are-the-centre-of-attention-anyway/)

[Ian Mckellen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mckellen/)

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> [I had a fabulous teacher, my headmistress's husband, who taught Shakespeare for A-level, and then I found this person called William Shakespeare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geraldine-james/i-had-a-fabulous-teacher-my-headmistress-s-husband-who-taught/)

[Geraldine James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geraldine-james/)

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> [Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/hegel-seems-to-me-to-be-always-wanting-to-say-that-things-which-look/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [ “Her grandfather's books \[...\] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/her-grandfather-s-books-opened-before-ada-a-world-whose-colours-were/)

[Irène Némirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

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> [I guess if they ever do a remake of 'Sophie's Choice,' I could play the Meryl Streep part. I've got to work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-gottfried/i-guess-if-they-ever-do-a-remake-of-sophie-s-choice-i-could-play-the/)

[Gilbert Gottfried](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-gottfried/)

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> [“There are absolute masterpieces that move us intensely: Mozart's Requiem, Homer's Odyssey, the Sistine Chapel, King Lear. To fully appreciate their brilliance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlo-rovelli/there-are-absolute-masterpieces-that-move-us-intensely-mozart-s/)

[Carlo Rovelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlo-rovelli/)

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> [Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-logan/young-screenwriters-are-always-very-frustrated-when-they-talk-to-me/)

[John Logan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-logan/)

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> [If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/if-i-had-written-king-lear-i-would-regret-it-all-my-life-afterwards/)

[Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-pessoa/)

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> [Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-mendes/directing-skyfall-was-one-of-the-best-experiences-of-my-professional/)

[Sam Mendes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-mendes/)

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> [“I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/i-remember-the-astonishment-i-felt-when-i-first-read-shakespeare-i/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

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> [“We have seen that our numerical zero derives originally from the Hindu sunya, meaning void or emptiness, deriving from the Sanskrit name…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-barrow/we-have-seen-that-our-numerical-zero-derives-originally-from-the/)

[John D. Barrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-barrow/)

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> [“He waved his hand; and it was as though, with an invisible feather wisk, he had brushed away a little dust, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldous-huxley/he-waved-his-hand-and-it-was-as-though-with-an-invisible-feather-wisk/)

[Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldous-huxley/)

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> [“The clown figure has had so many meanings in different times and cultures. The jolly, well-loved joker familiar to most people is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-ligotti/the-clown-figure-has-had-so-many-meanings-in-different-times-and/)

[Thomas Ligotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-ligotti/)

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> [“When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He's written "He dies." That's all, nothing more.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzanne-weyn/when-king-lear-dies-in-act-v-do-you-know-what-shakespeare-has-written-2/)

[Suzanne Weyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzanne-weyn/)

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> [“You all remember,” said the Controller, in his strong deep voice, “you all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldous-huxley/you-all-remember-said-the-controller-in-his-strong-deep-voice-you-all/)

[Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldous-huxley/)

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> [ In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the \[class\]room was uninhabitable and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-johnstone/in-my-school-the-library-was-forbidden-i-was-accused-of-turning-on/)

[Keith Johnstone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-johnstone/)

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> [“Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/up-until-relatively-recently-creating-original-characters-from/)

[Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/)

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> [“was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/was-an-english-poet-and-playwright-widely-regarded-as-the-greatest/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [“Sterling Memorial, the main library at Yale, had been built to resemble a Gothic cathedral, replete with stained glass, carved stonework, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/monique-truong/sterling-memorial-the-main-library-at-yale-had-been-built-to-resemble/)

[Monique Truong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/monique-truong/)

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> [“Take the oft-repeated injunction to get “its” and “it’s” straight. Everyone claims it’s remarkably easy to remember that “its” is possessive and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kory-stamper/take-the-oft-repeated-injunction-to-get-its-and-it-s-straight/)

[Kory Stamper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kory-stamper/)

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> [“It’s cruelty that gets to me. Still, it’s important to read about cruelty. “Why is it important?” Because when you read about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/it-s-cruelty-that-gets-to-me-still-it-s-important-to-read-about/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

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> [“There may even be a real relation between certain kinds of effectiveness in literature and totalitarianism in politics. But although the fictions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-kermode/there-may-even-be-a-real-relation-between-certain-kinds-of/)

[Frank Kermode](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-kermode/)

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> [“Shakespeare's plays do not present easy solutions. The audience has to decide for itself. King Lear is perhaps the most disturbing in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/shakespeare-s-plays-do-not-present-easy-solutions-the-audience-has-to/)

[Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/)

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> [“When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-russell/when-art-is-made-new-we-are-made-new-with-it-we-have-a-sense-of/)

[John Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-russell/)

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> [“In an age like our own, when the artist is an altogether exceptional person, he must be allowed a certain amount of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/in-an-age-like-our-own-when-the-artist-is-an-altogether-exceptional/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

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                        "text": "I guess if they ever do a remake of 'Sophie's Choice,' I could play the Meryl Streep part. I've got to work on my Polish accent. Maybe I'll be the definitive King Lear one day. You know, if they ever feel that King Lear should be more Jewy.",
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                        "text": "“There are absolute masterpieces that move us intensely: Mozart's Requiem, Homer's Odyssey, the Sistine Chapel, King Lear. To fully appreciate their brilliance may require a long apprenticeship, but the reward is sheer beauty--and not only this, but the opening of our eyes to a new perspective upon the world. Einstein's jewel, the general theory of relativity, is a masterpiece of this order.”",
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                        "text": "Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I say, 'You know what you do? I'll tell you the secret, it's easy: Read 'Hamlet.' You know? Then read it again, and read it again, and read it until you understand it. Read 'King Lear,' and then read 'Othello.'",
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                        "text": "If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.",
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                        "text": "“I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read, one after the other, works regarded as his best: \"King Lear,\" \"Romeo and Juliet,\" \"Hamlet\" and \"Macbeth,\" not only did I feel no delight, but I felt an irresistible repulsion and tedium . . . . Shakespeare can not be recognized either as a great genius, or even as an average author. . . . far from being the height of perfection, [King Lear] is a very bad, carelessly composed production, . . . can not evoke among us anything but aversion and weariness. . . . All his characters speak, not their own, but always one and the same Shakespearian, pretentious, and unnatural language . . . .”",
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                        "text": "“We have seen that our numerical zero derives originally from the Hindu sunya, meaning void or emptiness, deriving from the Sanskrit name for the mark denoting emptiness, or sunya-bindu, meaning an empty dot. These developed between the sixth and eighth centuries. By the ninth century, the assimilation of Indian mathematics by the Arab world led to the literal translation of sunya into Arabic as as-sifr, which also means 'empty' or the 'absence of anything'. We still see a residue of this because it is the origin of the English word 'cipher'. Originally, it meant 'Nothing', or if used insultingly of a person it would mean that they were a nonentity-a nobody-as in King Lear where the fool says to the King \"Now thou art an 0 without a figure. I am better than thou art now. I am a fool, thou art nothing.”",
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                        "text": "“The clown figure has had so many meanings in different times and cultures. The jolly, well-loved joker familiar to most people is actually but one aspect of this protean creature. Madmen, hunchbacks, amputees, and other abnormals were once considered natural clowns; they were elected to fulfill a comic role which could allow others to see them as ludicrous rather than as terrible reminders of the forces of disorder in the world. But sometimes a cheerless jester was required to draw attention to this same disorder, as in the case of King Lear's morbid and honest fool, who of course was eventually hanged, and so much for his clownish wisdom. Clowns have often had ambiguous and sometimes contradictory roles to play. (\"The Last Feast Of The Harlequin\")”",
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                        "text": "“When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He's written \"He dies.\" That's all, nothing more. No fanfare, no metaphor, no brilliant final words. The culmination of the most influential work of dramatic literature is \"He dies.\" It takes Shakespeare, a genius, to come up with \"He dies.\" And yet every time I read those two words, I find myself overwhelmed with dysphoria. And I know it's only natural to be sad, but not because of the words \"He dies.\" but because of the life we saw prior to the words.”",
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                        "text": "“You all remember,” said the Controller, in his strong deep voice, “you all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford’s: History is bunk. History,” he repeated slowly, “is bunk.” He waved his hand; and it was as though, with an invisible feather wisk, he had brushed away a little dust, and the dust was Harappa, was Ur of the Chaldees; some spider-webs, and they were Thebes and Babylon and Cnossos and Mycenae. Whisk. Whisk-and where was Odysseus, where was Job, where were Jupiter and Gotama and Jesus? Whisk-and those specks of antique dirt called Athens and Rome, Jerusalem and the Middle Kingdom-all were gone. Whisk-the place where Italy had been was empty. Whisk, the cathedrals; whisk, whisk, King Lear and the Thoughts of Pascal. Whisk, Passion; whisk, Requiem; whisk, Symphony; whisk...”",
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                        "text": "In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and the ceiling came down below; I'm pretty sure I didn't do it. But then we were moved to the library. And there was a really boring history thing, about the Spanish Armada: how could you make that boring?!So I reached my hand out, and slid a book off to read under the desk, and it opened at King Lear Act Four Scene Six. I was astounded. I'd never seen language like it. I was awestruck. I think that may be one reason why I got involved in theatre.",
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                        "text": "“Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The Aeneid, he didn't invent Aeneas; Aeneas was a minor character in Homer's Odyssey whose unauthorized further adventures Virgil decided to chronicle. Shakespeare didn't invent Hamlet and King Lear; he plucked them from historical and literary sources. Writers weren't the originators of the stories they told; they were just the temporary curators of them. Real creation was something the gods did. All that has changed. Today the way we think of creativity is dominated by Romantic notions of individual genius and originality, and late-capitalist concepts of intellectual property, under which artists are businesspeople whose creations are the commodities they have for sale.”",
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                        "text": "“was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the \"Bard of Avon\" (or simply \"The Bard\"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest examples in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime, and in 1623 two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's. Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called \"bardolatry\". In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are consistently performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world. Source: Wikipedia”",
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                        "text": "“Sterling Memorial, the main library at Yale, had been built to resemble a Gothic cathedral, replete with stained glass, carved stonework, and a crenellated tower. Completed in 1930, the structure was \"as near to modern Gothic as we dared\" according to its architect, James Gamble Rogers. The use of the word \"dare\" always intrigued me. It suggested boundaries and infractions. There was, as I had come to expect at Yale, a scandalous story attached to the library's design. The benefactress, an old woman with failing eyesight, wanted a place of worship, and Yale wanted a library. Flouting its own motto, Lux et Veritas , Yale presented her with a structural trompe l'oeil. A cathedral in its outlines, but in its details a pantheon to books, where King Lear was a demigod and Huckleberry Finn a mischievous angel. The visual world had already become a greasy smudge to the benefactress, so the old biddy died never knowing the difference. Light and Truth , indeed.”",
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                        "text": "“Take the oft-repeated injunction to get “its” and “it’s” straight. Everyone claims it’s remarkably easy to remember that “its” is possessive and “it’s” is a contraction. But logic tells us that in English, ’s attached to a noun signals possession: the dog’s dish, the cat’s toy, the lexicographer’s cry. So if English is logical, and there are simple rules to follow, why doesn’t “it’s” signal possession? We know that ’s also signals a contraction, but we don’t have any problems with differentiating between “the dog’s dish” and “the dog’s sleeping”—why should we suddenly have problems with “it’s dish” and “it’s sleeping”? This type of grammar often completely ignores hundreds (and, in some cases, well over a thousand) years of established use in English. For “it’s,” the rule is certainly easy to memorize, but it also ignores the history of “its” and “it’s.” At one point in time, “it” was its own possessive pronoun: the 1611 King James Bible reads, “That which groweth of it owne accord…thou shalt not reape”; Shakespeare wrote in King Lear, “It had it head bit off by it young.” They weren’t the first: the possessive “it” goes back to the fifteenth century. But around the time that Shakespeare was shuffling off this mortal coil, the possessive “it” began appearing as “it’s.” We’re not sure why the change happened, but some commentators guess that it was because “it” didn’t appear to be its own possessive pronoun, like “his” and “her,” but rather a bare pronoun in need of that possessive marker given to nouns: ’s. Sometimes this possessive appeared without punctuation as “its.” But the possessive “it’s” grew in popularity through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries until it was the dominant form of the word. It even survived into the nineteenth century: you’ll find it in the letters of Thomas Jefferson and Jane Austen and the speechwriting notes of Abraham Lincoln. This would be relatively simple were it not for the fact that “it’s” was also occasionally used as a contraction for “it is” or “it has” (“and it’s come to pass,” Shakespeare wrote in Henry VIII, 1.2.63). Some grammarians noticed and complained—not that the possessive “it’s” and the contractive “it’s” were confusing, but that the contractive “it’s” was a misuse and mistake for the contraction “ ’tis,” which was the more standard contraction of “it is.” This was a war that the pedants lost: “ ’tis” waned while “it’s” waxed.”",
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                        "text": "“It’s cruelty that gets to me. Still, it’s important to read about cruelty. “Why is it important?” Because when you read about it, it’s easier to recognize. That was always the hardest thing in the refugee camps—to hear the stories of the people who had been raped or mutilated or forced to watch a parent or a sister or a child be raped or killed. It’s very hard to come face-to-face with such cruelty. But people can be cruel in lots of ways, some very subtle. I think that’s why we all need to read about it. I think that’s one of the amazing things about Tennessee Williams’s plays. He was so attuned to cruelty—the way Stanley treats Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. It starts with asides and looks and put-downs. There are so many great examples from Shakespeare—when Goneril torments King Lear or the way Iago speaks to Othello. And what I love about Dickens is the way he presents all types of cruelty. You need to learn to recognize these things right from the start. Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.”",
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                        "text": "“There may even be a real relation between certain kinds of effectiveness in literature and totalitarianism in politics. But although the fictions are alike ways of finding out about the human world, anti-Semitism is a fiction of escape which tells you nothing about death but projects it onto others; whereas King Lear is a fiction that inescapably involves an encounter with oneself, and the image of one's end. This is one difference; and there is another. We have to distinguish between myths and fictions. Fictions can degenerate into myths whenever they are not consciously held to be fictive. In this sense anti-Semitism is a degenerate fiction, a myth; and Lear is a fiction. Myth operates within the diagrams of ritual, which presupposes total and adequate explanations of things as they are and were; it is a sequence of radically unchangeable gestures. Fictions are for finding things out, and they change as the needs of sense-making change. Myths are the agents of stability, fictions the agents of change. Myths call for absolute, fictions for conditional assent. Myths make sense in terms of a lost order of time, illud tempus as Eliade calls it; fictions, if successful, make sense of the here and now, hoc tempus. It may be that treating literary fictions as myths sounds good just now, but as Marianne Moore so rightly said of poems, 'these things are important not because a / high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are / useful.”",
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                        "text": "“Shakespeare's plays do not present easy solutions. The audience has to decide for itself. King Lear is perhaps the most disturbing in this respect. One of the key words of the whole play is 'Nothing'. When King Lear's daughter Cordelia announces that she can say 'Nothing' about her love for her father, the ties of family love fall apart, taking the king from the height of power to the limits of endurance, reduced to 'nothing' but 'a poor bare forked animal'. Here, instead of 'readiness' to accept any challenge, the young Edgar says 'Ripeness is all'. This is a maturity that comes of learning from experience. But, just as the audience begins to see hope in a desperate and violent situation, it learns that things can always get worse: Who is't can say 'I am at the worst?' … The worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.' Shakespeare is exploring and redefining the geography of the human soul, taking his characters and his audience further than any other writer into the depths of human behaviour. The range of his plays covers all the 'form and pressure' of mankind in the modern world. They move from politics to family, from social to personal, from public to private. He imposed no fixed moral, no unalterable code of behaviour. That would come to English society many years after Shakespeare's death, and after the tragic hypothesis of Hamlet was fulfilled in 1649, when the people killed the King and replaced his rule with the Commonwealth. Some critics argue that Shakespeare supported the monarchy and set himself against any revolutionary tendencies. Certainly he is on the side of order and harmony, and his writing reflects a monarchic context rather than the more republican context which replaced the monarchy after 1649. It would be fanciful to see Shakespeare as foretelling the decline of the Stuart monarchy. He was not a political commentator. Rather, he was a psychologically acute observer of humanity who had a unique ability to portray his observations, explorations, and insights in dramatic form, in the richest and most exciting language ever used in the English theatre.”",
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                        "text": "“When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and of psychic energies shared and redoubled, which is just about the most satisfying thing that life has to offer. 'If that is possible,' we say to ourselves, 'then everything is possible'; a new phase in the history of human awareness has been opened up, just as it opened up when people first read Dante, or first heard Bach's 48 preludes and fugues, or first learned from Hamlet and King Lear(/I> that the complexities and contradictions of human nature could be spelled out on the stage. This being so, it is a great exasperation to come face to face with new art and not make anything of it. Stared down by something that we don't like, don't understand and can't believe in, we feel personally affronted, as if our identity as reasonably alert and responsive human beings had been called into question. We ought to be having a good time, and we aren't. More than that, an important part of life is being withheld from us; for if any one thing is certain in this world it is that art is there to help us live, and for no other reason. ”",
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