Books Quote by Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

— Cary Fukunaga

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

— Sam Wanamaker

Shakespeare is global - of course he can be shared.

— Sebastian Koch

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

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language…

— Kenneth Branagh

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

— Orlando Bloom

There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language that is…

— James Avery

Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere.

— Henry Norman Hudson

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

— Sam Wanamaker

Shakespeare is universal.

— Harold Bloom

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

— M. H. Abrams

“Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the eyes above…

— J.R.R. Tolkien