Impossible Quote by Howard Barker

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

— Edward Albee

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

— Edward Albee

Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is…

— Robert Lepage

There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the…

— Matt Haig

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

The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies - and…

— Matt Damon

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It…

— Lee Hall

I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.

— Greta Gerwig

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

To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

— Naseeruddin Shah

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

— Sam Wanamaker