Associates Quote by Richard Armour

“It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.”

— Amanda Craig

'Macbeth' is one of those books that demand all of your attention.

— Mannie Fresh

“All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures —…

— Mark Twain

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the…

— Joseph Fiennes

We just don't need any more 'Macbeth's in the world, however brilliant mine might turn out to be.

— John Tiffany

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes

The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.

— John Keats

There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.

— Joel Grey

I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.

— Kelly Reilly

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

— Jones Very

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

— Andre Holland