He Quote by Allan Bloom

It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.

— Toni Morrison

Shakespeare was very political, but he was also a fabulous entertainer. That's where his genius comes in as a playwright.

— Adrian Dunbar

Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that…

— Joseph Devlin

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

— Edward Bond

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

— H. C. Bunner

“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

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

— Christopher Isherwood

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.

— Adam DeVine

An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which…

— Steven Berkoff

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of…

— Elizabeth Montagu

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson