Bad Quote by Adrian Lester

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

— Michael Tippett

The plays that survive the most easily are the ones in which Shakespeare has dug deep into the psychology of people in extreme situations.

— Adrian Lester

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

— Kevin Spacey

I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.

— Rafe Esquith

“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state…

— Samuel Johnson

If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his perspective; each…

— Joyce Carol Oates

It's extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

— Kevin Spacey

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to…

— Jonathan Miller

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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.…

— Ronald Carter

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human…

— Franz Grillparzer

“Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a…

— Samuel Johnson