Critique Quote by Gregory Doran

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

— Henning Mankell

“There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa -- and as many books about it as you could read in a…

— Beryl Markham

I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world is rocking…

— Ralph Fiennes

There's a wonderful author named Can Themba, who said that Africa extends a fraternal handshake to Shakespeare. That William Shakespeare would have recognized Elizabethan…

— Gregory Doran

“I never thought to meet a true romantic in the wilds of Africa of all places.” Ryder gestured expansively. “Why not? Africa is the…

— Deanna Raybourn

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

— Edward Hall

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today?”

— Virginia Woolf

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly…

— T. S. Eliot

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible.…

— Heinrich Heine

Any scene in Shakespeare can be vulgarised almost out of recognition with the wish to have a modern concept.

— Peter Brook

“A Conrad student informed me in Scotland that Africa is merely a setting for the disintegration of the mind of Mr. Kurtz. Which is…

— Chinua Achebe

“Even the works of Shakespeare might be more thoroughly appreciated if they were re-examined from unorthodox positions. Someone, once in a while, should take…

— Sōseki Natsume