Insolent Quote by John Dryden

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

— John Dryden

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

— Charles Darwin

What, if not Shakespeare, is open for interpretation?

— Kelly Asbury

I've been in plays that have been freely adapted from Shakespeare, and sometimes one's wary of those.

— Jason Watkins

I love rereading Shakespeare plays and Im constantly finding bits that Ive overlooked or not understood before.

— Michael Rosen

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

— John Keats

“When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the poet's company to be…

— John Crowley

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters. . . . To become intimate with Shakespeare in…

— Charlotte Mason

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

— Denzel Washington

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

— Sam Waterston

Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.

— Gene Weingarten