Eiffel tower Quote by Mark Twain

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

— Christina Ricci

“Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they put his monument at Stratford beyond the reach of…

— Virginia Woolf

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which…

— Steven Berkoff

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

— Virginia Woolf

By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the 400 years…

— Michel Faber

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

— Roger Rees

“I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going…

— Jean Webster

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the…

— Joseph Fiennes

“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…

— Samuel Johnson

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by…

— Gilbert Highet

“Malone's commentary on Sonnet 93 was a defining moment in the history not only of Shakespeare studies but also of literary biography in general.…

— James Shapiro