Century Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered…

— William Monahan

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of…

— Leigh Hunt

All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying.…

— Ray Winstone

All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

— Marcus Aurelius

There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen.

— Derek Walcott

“Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find themselves at…

— Yanis Varoufakis

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

— George Jean Nathan

The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes.

— Cynthia Addai-Robinson

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

— John Adams

“A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.”

— John Connolly