I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to… — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I once came upon a definition of history as ‘the process by which complex truths are transformed into simplified falsehoods’. That is… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“Julius Caesar is an ambivalent study of civil conflict. As in Richard II, the play is structured around two protagonists rather than… — David Bevington Copy Share Image
Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them.… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
“brain activity in a heartbeat. All of that says Richard. But the DNA in consort with the paper trail of a genealogy… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“All places that the eye of heaven visits/ Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:/ Think not the king did… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“It is hard to tell the story of Elizabeth of York without her farbetter-known husband, Henry VII, as the hero. Henry himself,… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don't really cast openly like… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shakespeare villains were extraordinary. Macbeth, Iago, Richard III... They're so richly layered that a British actor would find it almost impossible to… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I love 'Richard III,' but in terms of a general play, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' has always been a big one for… — Sean Maher Copy Share Image
The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I want to know everything there is to know about Lewis and Clark. And I want to do the Sunday crossword in… — Robert Sean Leonard Copy Share Image
“Sir Thomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of the King's Bench, was born in 1478, in Milk Street, in… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
You can't get any more evil than Iago or Richard III. Those guys are bad. — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
There's an honourable tradition of British actors who've gone to Hollywood playing baddies. Part of that is because we grow up with… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
