Born Quote by Norah Vincent

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

— Alex Cox

“There are times, aren't there, when Shakespeare is a little dull.”

— Graham Greene

I think Hamlet is a very funny play - Hamlet is riddled with wit.

— Chukwudi Iwuji

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

— Anonymous

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.

— William Monahan

“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

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

— Virginia Woolf

Shakespeare was very political, but he was also a fabulous entertainer. That's where his genius comes in as a playwright.

— Adrian Dunbar

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

— Matthew Arnold

But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

— Ken Robinson

“He is like Shakespeare, if Shakespeare had gone mad and vowed to speak in only the most convoluted terms meant to confound his listeners.”

— Perpetua Langley