About Quote by LaTanya Richardson

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

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that…

— Marcia Gay Harden

Shakespeare was writing about his time, and it was a time when women were beginning to demand a voice, demand a say in their…

— Phyllida Lloyd

Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece…

— Peter Brook

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

— Eugene Ionesco

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond…

— Alexis Denisof

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have…

— Michelle Dockery

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today?”

— Virginia Woolf

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

— H. C. Bunner

“What’s past is prologue. William Shakespeare, The Tempest Don’t bother me with all that history crap. It just gets in the way of action!…

— Anthony Grey

Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of…

— George Edward Woodberry

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

— James McAvoy