Considering Quote by James Fenton

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? -…

— George III

By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the 400 years…

— Michel Faber

“Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it…

— Franz Rottensteiner

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

— Roger Rees

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

— John Bradshaw

As an audience, if you see 1800s or something, it more often seems that the actors are carrying the weight of the time. It…

— Franka Potente

We've seen Shakespeare done a billion times to make it seem relevant today. We love period dramas. We love to long for a time…

— Claudia Jessie

And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled…

— Anonymous

The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read…

— Ryan North

Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley