War Quote by Louis Menand

“Shakespeare's plays do not present easy solutions. The audience has to decide for itself. King Lear is perhaps the most disturbing in this respect.…

— Ronald Carter

“If the distinction is not held too rigidly nor pressed too far, it is interesting to think of Shakespeare's chief works as either love…

— Harold Clarke Goddard

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers,…

— Virginia Woolf

“It was possible to explore the 'great tradition' of the English novel and believe that in doing so you were addressing questions of fundamental…

— Terry Eagleton

“The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and…

— Heraclitus

“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state…

— Samuel Johnson

“Though they were very dissimilar in character, they also shared many tastes and appetites, and those they didn’t share they tolerated in each other…

— Colleen McCullough

“Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride, Hamlet, Othello, Coriolanus fall. Upon his bed, however, Shakespeare die, Having endured them all.”

— Louise Bogan

“This man was different from all others; he was forbidden fruit, the outsider. Her mother had trained her well, but she had never told…

— Constance O'Banyon

“That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.”

— Gayle Forman

King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

“He hovered, as it were, on the fringes of both the scientific and the classical worlds, making, apparently, no deep impression on either. Perhaps…

— Ruth D'Arcy Thompson