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“In addition, unlike Othello, whose profession of arms is socially honorable, Shylock is a professional usurer who, like a prostitute, has a social function…

— W.H. Auden

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their…

— Daniel Hannan

“Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock…

— Varlam Shalamov

“They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

— Laura Riding

Conscience doth make cowards of us all. William Shakespeare, Hamlet

— William Shakespear

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.

— Kelli O'Hara

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

— Anonymous

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor,…

— Zoe Wanamaker

“Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a…

— Samuel Johnson

Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.

— Allan Bloom

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to…

— Jonathan Miller