County Quote by Katharine Lee Bates

Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had…

— Bill Bryson

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current…

— John Dos Passos

Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told…

— John Aubrey

I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those works, but…

— Rhys Ifans

Frankly, the British always looked at this as a dumpy industrial area, but this was where Shakespeare lived and wrote and performed some of…

— Sam Wanamaker

Whenever I play Shakespeare, I keep thinking, 'how did this Englishman know so much about me?'

— John Kani

“I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.”

— Anonymous

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

— Jim Broadbent

You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play.

— Michelle Dockery

“was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often…

— William Shakespeare

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

— Michael Tippett

Most Britons, and most Americans as well, either thought the Globe was in Stratford-Upon-Avon or didn't know where it was at all.

— Sam Wanamaker