Available Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond…

— Alexis Denisof

Shakespeare is a seminal story-teller. I don't think he imagined he was writing classics or that he was writing great poetry. I don't think…

— Naseeruddin Shah

With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.

— Christian Cooke

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he…

— Stephen Greenblatt

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in…

— Phil Daniels

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

— Tim Crouch

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

— Chris Cornell

Shakespeare is practically our only link with the classic and the past. The future of education has much to do with whether we will…

— Allan Bloom

I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his…

— Stephen Fry

I've done a lot of Shakespeare over the years. You start to realise how the plays fit together; he's always using pieces from one…

— Harriet Walter

Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many authors are…

— Rebecca Serle

It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to…

— David Crystal