Behavior Quote by Phyllida Lloyd

We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out.…

— Ian Mckellen

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

— John Irving

I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan,…

— Ben Kingsley

Men always say there is no female Shakespeare.' 'Humph! You study the fellows who say that, and you'll see they are a long way…

— Miles Franklin

Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now, Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow.

— Cole Porter

There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play.

— Maxine Peake

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

— Geraldine James

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.

— Kelli O'Hara

Male playwrights, on the whole, are probably more interested in male characters. They need women characters to be the women in their lives or…

— Harriet Walter

I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and it's still relevant today, that you have…

— Samuel Barnett

“On certain social occasions, otherwise dignified and serious men will begin behaving unconsciously like players on a stage, performing as they talk, acting as…

— Jed Rubenfeld

By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the…

— Arthur Miller