Age Quote by Bill Bryson

I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those works, but…

— Rhys Ifans

Poor Marlowe gets a rough deal for simply not being Shakespeare. But he was Bill's forerunner. It's hard to imagine one without the other.

— Paterson Joseph

Shakespeare is a seminal story-teller. I don't think he imagined he was writing classics or that he was writing great poetry. I don't think…

— Naseeruddin Shah

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

— Sigmund Freud

I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.

— Kelly Asbury

There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the…

— Matt Haig

Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less…

— Horace Walpole

“was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often…

— William Shakespeare

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

— Zach Braff

“SHAKESPEARE What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more…

— Ronald Carter

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Adrian Dunbar