Comedy Quote by Mark Rylance

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time.…

— Linda Lavin

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

— August Strindberg

“In actual fact, however, the revolt of Ibsen and Shaw against the conventional nineteenth century drama could very well be described as a return…

— W.H. Auden

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

— Rita Dove

“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

But to me I find Francis Bacon the most likely candidate to be the author.

— Mark Rylance

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

— Michelle Dockery

“The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I tended to fall in love with characters in books. Most guys I went to school with were far too interested in sports or…

— Trisha Haddad

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William…

— Hayley Atwell

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create…

— John Guare