Adventure Quote by Elizabeth Montagu

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that…

— Marcia Gay Harden

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties,…

— Norman Mailer

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

— Alex Cox

It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.

— Toni Morrison

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

— Evelyn Waugh

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

— Christina Ricci

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

— Andre Holland

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

— Anthony Hopkins

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no…

— Peter Ackroyd

I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as…

— Xavier Samuel