Ends Quote by Peggy Ashcroft

Shakespeare put characters in extreme circumstances, all over his plays. Therefore their behaviour becomes extreme, in ways that can be both extremely good and…

— Adrian Lester

The plays that survive the most easily are the ones in which Shakespeare has dug deep into the psychology of people in extreme situations.

— Adrian Lester

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

— Michael Tippett

If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his perspective; each…

— Joyce Carol Oates

You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play.

— Michelle Dockery

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter…

— Charlton Heston

I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for…

— Zach Gilford

It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare would only…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human…

— Franz Grillparzer

I've done a lot of Shakespeare over the years. You start to realise how the plays fit together; he's always using pieces from one…

— Harriet Walter

Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified…

— Joseph Addison

Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield,…

— Bjornstjerne Bjornson