Able Quote by Mark Rylance

Although I myself have not been a huge follower of Shakespeare's dramatic nuances during my academic years, these plays that were penned down centuries…

— Ranvir Shorey

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

— Anonymous

There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.

— Joel Grey

“The anti-Stratfordians hold that Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare’s plays—it was another fellow of the same name, or of a different name. In this they…

— David Mamet

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses…

— George Bernard Shaw

The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had…

— Arthur Miller

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

“Most of us, most of the time, act within plays the lines of which were written long ago, the images of which require recognition,…

— Sidney W. Mintz

I had stopped writing plays set in villages because they were not relevant to my experiences and I knew my English classmates wouldn't appreciate…

— Sefi Atta

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied…

— Wallace Shawn

I always thought from my knowledge of London theater and the audiences here that they would appreciate a truly genius piece of theatrical work.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might…

— Laurence Housman