Authority Quote by Roger Rees

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

— Helen Mirren

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

My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.

— Kenneth Branagh

One hundred percent, all your Shakespeare training serves you in the work in musical theater today: specifically in modern musical theater, our soliloquies, and…

— Renee Elise Goldsberry

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

“Shakespeare had all these sonnets where what he said came down to this: Youth is fleeting and you'd better get married and have children…

— Elizabeth Knox

We expect kids to go straight from Shel Silverstein to William Shakespeare. There needs to be a bridge of relatable, fun, rhythmic verse that…

— Kwame Alexander

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

— Steve Coogan

Although I myself have not been a huge follower of Shakespeare's dramatic nuances during my academic years, these plays that were penned down centuries…

— Ranvir Shorey

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

— Alanis Morissette

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It…

— Lee Hall