Books Quote by Gregory Doran

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them.…

— Ishmael Beah

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

Shakespeare belongs to the whole of mankind, not just one country.

— Sam Wanamaker

When I first encountered Shakespeare as a boy, I read every word this man has written. To me, he is like an African storyteller.

— John Kani

Shakespeare is global - of course he can be shared.

— Sebastian Koch

You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.

— John Kani

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“...colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead.”

— S. A. David

Shakespeare is universal.

— Harold Bloom

We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Virginia Woolf