Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays?… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have… — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet. — Carol Zaleski Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
