Criticism Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.”

— John Irving

“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.”

— Charles Dickens

“From this perspective, we were all divine Shakespeares, creating and playing the roles of muscled heroes and conniving villains, pious saints and debauched sinners,…

— Jonathan Talat Phillips

“It's Shakespeare making fun of love.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“...with an understanding of Shakespeare there comes a release from the gullibility that makes you prey to the great shopkeeper who runs the world,…

— Nadine Gordimer

“What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pilèd stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid…

— John Milton

With Shakespeare, the hard work is to find out why he said it and how it can relate to the audience.

— Ruben Santiago-Hudson

“They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

— Orson Welles

“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Shakespeare = We all make his”

— Anonymous

“I'm afraid I always find Shakespeare terribly dreary. All those long scenes where everybody is drunk and it's supposed to be funny.”

— Agatha Christie