Beginning Quote by Phyllida Lloyd

Shakespeare wrote about what was happening during the time; it still relates to us now.

— LaTanya Richardson

“That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.”

— Gayle Forman

“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

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

— Virginia Woolf

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

— H. C. Bunner

With Shakespeare, the hard work is to find out why he said it and how it can relate to the audience.

— Ruben Santiago-Hudson

“Take away the idea of dark times and ruin and you begin to hear other voices. Women were not always silent, or without the…

— Michael Pye

Shakespeare writes such wonderful parts for women, parts that work so well today. I think he really liked women.

— Geraldine James

I'd love to do more Shakespeare but Shakespeare didn't write parts for older women.

— Geraldine James

We've seen Shakespeare done a billion times to make it seem relevant today. We love period dramas. We love to long for a time…

— Claudia Jessie

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

— Graham Greene

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women…

— William Butler Yeats