Dreams Quote by Michael Dirda

Hamlet is the result of Shakespeare's work on Brutus.

— Dakin Matthews

“and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any…

— Stephen King

“But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy, lie further off.” —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night’s Dream The”

— Connie Willis

“A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.”

— John Connolly

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to…

— Beau Willimon

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

— Aaron Yoo

“Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind, but in one composition.”

— Samuel Johnson

“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

Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield,…

— Bjornstjerne Bjornson

“A strange One-Act play in the theater of dreams.”

— Kealan Patrick Burke

We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2

— William Shakespeare

“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