Quote by Mike Wallace

“From this perspective, we were all divine Shakespeares, creating and playing the roles of muscled heroes and conniving villains, pious saints and debauched sinners,…

— Jonathan Talat Phillips

“They are, from this period, to be considered as Actors on a most conspicuous Theatre, which seems to be peculiarly designated by Providence for…

— Joseph J. Ellis

The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read…

— Ryan North

“How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!”

— George Bernard Shaw

“To quote a Shakespearean cliché, repeated to death because it is so stubbornly true: “All the world’s a stage.” Work is theater. The place…

— David Whyte

“Another struggle has been the struggle to keep the value of a local and particular character, of a particular culture in this awful maelstrom,…

— Ezra Pound

“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

“It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.”

— John Irving

“The Comedy of Errors has been consistently under-appreciated, I’d argue, in part because we don’t know how to appreciate plot. Contemporary culture, the study…

— Emma Smith

“It was clear he had remained unflustered by recent public events, at the age he had reached perhaps disillusioned with the commonplaces of life;…

— Anthony Powell

“...the seaside life and the life of travel made me realise that the theatre of the world is stocked with fewer settings than actors,…

— Marcel Proust

“The Bedlam that greeted James Tilly Matthews, then, was not so much a baroque spectacle of depravity as an exhausted and run-down public institution,…

— Mike Jay