Care Quote by Edward Abbey

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his…

— James Buchan

Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings,…

— Rhys Ifans

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

— Adam DeVine

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

— Sam Wanamaker

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

— Alex Cox

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

— Christopher Isherwood

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

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

“It may take a decade or two before the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration passes from the graduate seminar to the undergraduate lecture, and finally…

— James Shapiro

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

— Roger Rees

Shakespeare is still Shakespeare because story rules.

— Eric Bischoff

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

— Adrian Dunbar