Astonishing Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used…

— Stephen Greenblatt

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

— Kool Keith

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

— Al Pacino

Shakespeare gives you these clues - these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the story, the…

— Christian Camargo

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

“It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.”

— John Irving

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

— Alanis Morissette

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

By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the 400 years…

— Michel Faber

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

— Kenneth Branagh

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

— Christina Ricci