Country Quote by Arthur Miller

Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.

— Jodie Foster

If the World Seniors led to a place directly into the Crucible, then I would take it very seriously because to play there again…

— Stephen Hendry

“All Renaissance drama, especially the works of Marlowe and Shakespeare, is profoundly concerned with shifting power relations within society. The individual was a new…

— Ronald Carter

Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist who's ever…

— Sarah Jones

In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most…

— Brooks Atkinson

“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

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have…

— Arthur Miller

A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative…

— Romulus Linney

Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield,…

— Bjornstjerne Bjornson

It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.

— Hyman Taubman

The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the…

— Kevin Spacey

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