Deep Quote by Adrian Lester

Shakespeare put characters in extreme circumstances, all over his plays. Therefore their behaviour becomes extreme, in ways that can be both extremely good and…

— Adrian Lester

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

— Michael Tippett

“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

Although I myself have not been a huge follower of Shakespeare's dramatic nuances during my academic years, these plays that were penned down centuries…

— Ranvir Shorey

There are some great roles mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes…

— Peggy Ashcroft

Im fascinated by failure, and Im fascinated by finality. Shakespeares historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality…

— George Hickenlooper

It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare would only…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter…

— Charlton Heston

All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying.…

— Ray Winstone

The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the…

— George Augustus Henry Sala