Eulogy Quote by George Edward Woodberry

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

— Sam Wanamaker

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other…

— Lytton Strachey

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

— Robert Graves

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

— Robert Graves

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

— Walter Savage Landor

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

— Richard Flanagan

Shakespeare is undoubtedly the greatest dramatist the world has known, and 95 countries translate his work into their languages.

— Sam Wanamaker

Because British actors hold Shakespeare in such great reverence, we tend to go for the word, which tends to make things very intellectual.

— Geraldine James

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

— Roger Rees

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.

— Ray Fearon