Academic Quote by James Fenton

“It is true that biographical readings of the plays are dangerous, unregulated, prone to sentimentalization. It is absurd to cherry-pick passages of poetry written…

— Charles Nicholl

“ The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to be used…

— Peter Porter

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

— H. C. Bunner

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

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

— Eminem

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

— Walter Savage Landor

I've hated poetry ever since I was at school. I include Shakespeare in that. I don't understand the obsession with him!

— Eddie the Eagle

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

— Denis Diderot

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

— Spike Milligan

“You cannot locate Shakespeare in his own works, not even in the sonnets. It is in this near invisibility that encourages the zealots who…

— Harold Bloom