Quote by Olivia Shakespear Download Open image ““Though Shakespear remained anonymous as “Diana Vernon” in The Man and the Masks,”” — Olivia Shakespear ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Camilla: You, sir, should unmask. Stranger: Indeed? Cassilda: Indeed it’s time. We all have laid aside disguise but you. Stranger: I wear no mask.… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“That's the real mystery, isn't it? Not whether he was a common merchant or the queen's son, but how he could understand so much… — Elise Broach Copy Share Image
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Being a playwright, a film producer, a minister, a general; these are all masks one wears over one’s face in the society; masks don’t… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Quite possibly one of the most revealing passages about Shakespeare as a man comes from one of the roughest of the jottings made by… — Ian Wilson Copy Share Image
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." -Oscar Wilde” — D.W. Ulsterman Copy Share Image
I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor,… — Zoe Wanamaker Copy Share Image
“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.” — Cassandra Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Do you seriously think I’m coming to your dance?” I went on. “Why, I haven’t got a dress, or a face fit to show… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“who are incapable of understanding a woman’s character, heart, and soul. Yeats insists that men need “protection & care in those deeper things where… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“Like Jonathan Swift, Yeats was always a great renamer of his women, giving them mythical aliases or the names of Sir Walter Scott’s heroines,… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“I had passed through many deaths since that night when she had been born in all her beauty; for is not “every step we… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“A woman must be good,” he said reflectively. “Only a plain woman,” said I. “Who has been behaving ill now?” “I was generalizing; or,… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“Yet again, the heroine of the novel is a lovely young woman thwarted in her creative capacities by marriage to an old man; yet… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“My father had taken me, as a young girl, to balls. I had sat out unnoticed, but observant; and it had seemed to me… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“The plot of Love on a Mortal Lease is not unlike those Shakespear would use later, nor unlike those of commonplace Victorian works. The… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
