Being Quote by Paterson Joseph

A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and…

— Bill Bryson

“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" wrote Marlowe, the man Shakespeare feared for many years was the better writer, the man…

— Arthur Phillips

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

— Adrian Dunbar

“Shakespeare could not have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and tamed the…

— Virginia Woolf

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

— Zach Braff

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson…

— John Mortimer

It's extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

— Kevin Spacey

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

— Kevin Spacey

Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less…

— Horace Walpole

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

— Alex Cox

I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to…

— Gene Simmons

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

— Christopher Isherwood