Act Quote by Richard LaGravenese

Having ground my teeth at educational theorists who say Shakespeare is irrelevant to inner-city children, I was overjoyed to be there when a class…

— Damian Green

“I am all the daughters of my father’s house, And all the brothers too. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night, ACT 2, SCENE 4”

— Lisa Scottoline

Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.

— Tim Crouch

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to…

— Jonathan Miller

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

“But she worried about how the older students, who were required to leave the school at age twelve, would find work. Many of these…

— Megan Marshall

I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.

— Helen Mirren

I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story of 'Macbeth'…

— Nick Hornby

You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English…

— Ken Robinson

Mostly, I hope that by having some fun with Shakespeare's style I'll encourage young people who are intimidated by Shakespeare to give him a…

— Ian Doescher

Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I'll tell you what these young kids have: They have a…

— Roger Rees

Shakespeare's gone, don't even think about it.

— Kool Keith