Bills Quote by Oscar Wilde

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other…

— Lytton Strachey

I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered…

— William Monahan

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

— Voltaire

If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then…

— Damian Lewis

The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of their new…

— Stephen Daldry

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself,…

— Anonymous

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily…

— Derek Jarman

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English…

— Winston Churchill

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

— John Patrick Shanley

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers,…

— Virginia Woolf

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

— Harold Pinter

What, if not Shakespeare, is open for interpretation?

— Kelly Asbury