Application Quote by Gregory Doran

It's extremely important that plays reflect contemporary times and should not just be about asking for social change without having any connect with the…

— Mahesh Bhatt

[Romeo + Juliet] is relevant when Hamlet and all of that was out, when [William] Shakespeare wrote it. It's relevant now. It's not a…

— Quindon Tarver

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

“It is surely significant, for instance, that Romeo and Juliet was written at around the same time as The Merchant of Venice, a play…

— William Shakespeare

I think about Shakespeare. Because there have been hundreds of variations of Shakespeare's plays since they've been written, and I believe it's because they're…

— Malachi Kirby

The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the…

— Kevin Spacey

Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose.

— Jill Vialet

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do…

— Julie Taymor

The story of the movie [Romeo + Juliet] is timeless. It's relevant then.

— Quindon Tarver

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

— Virginia Woolf

A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative…

— Romulus Linney

I think that one of the reasons Shakespeare withstands the test of time is that his themes are so universal.

— Rebecca Serle