I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the… — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare — or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great,… — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
“I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
I've done maybe twelve of Shakespeare's plays. I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for years. Whatever influence that has never leaves… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
“Hamlet promised himself he’d throw down afterward, but I think perhaps when he said, “From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody,… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making… — William Alfred Quayle Copy Share Image
“Who are these people sharing the street with me? What is going on in their worlds, inside their heads? Are they in… — Alison Larkin Copy Share Image
With Othello, Shakespeare posed this problem of a black man in a white society in the role that he's playing. And Shakespeare… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
“...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
If you are an atheist as I am, Shakespeare can be your ideal. Everything is within Shakespeare, especially in his 10 greatest… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home… — Henry Norman Hudson Copy Share Image
Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that… — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
Where does an actress go after playing Cleopatra's magnificent death? Why didn't Shakespeare write more - and more powerful - roles for… — Harriet Walter Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I've been busy with other things for a… — Elizabeth Marvel Copy Share Image
There are some great roles mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One… — Peggy Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I have my sweetheart Yorkshire terrier, Tabasco, along with two cats, Romeo and Jasmine. Yes, I am both a Shakespeare and Disney… — Kirsten Prout Copy Share Image
I did a season at the Royal Shakespeare Company. People say, 'Why aren't you doing theater anymore?' And I say, 'Look, my… — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound... { His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare }” — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was very political, but he was also a fabulous entertainer. That's where his genius comes in as a playwright. — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed… — Mark Williams Copy Share Image
“Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh, Your vows to her and me, put in two scales, Will even weigh,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness. — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Many people know that Shakespeare's dramatic 'canon' was established in 1623 by the publication of the so-called First Folio. That hefty volume… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
