Civilization Quote by George Edward Woodberry

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

— Zach Braff

Shakespeare is practically our only link with the classic and the past. The future of education has much to do with whether we will…

— Allan Bloom

You could argue we are a different audience today,but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is that he…

— Sam Wanamaker

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It…

— Lee Hall

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend…

— Virginia Woolf

Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of…

— George Edward Woodberry

I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on the cusp,…

— Neil MacGregor

From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a…

— Felicity Kendal

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

— John Bradshaw

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

— M. H. Abrams

“Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a…

— Samuel Johnson

Shakespeare is global - of course he can be shared.

— Sebastian Koch