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“A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.”

— John Connolly

“The sooner you figure out how to play the game, the faster you will get ahead. You waving your rainbow flag and refusing to…

— Santino Hassell

“But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“it seems to me that this kind of hero—privileged, self-assured, the perpetual heir to the kingdom, and not averse to violence—has been and continues…

— David Elliott

“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state…

— Samuel Johnson

“This short history should have something to satisfy every taste and perversion: action, treachery, fratricide and regicide, corruption, and bloodshed. It contains thirteen murders,…

— R.A. Lafferty

“fallen empires of kings, dictators, and fools who were passionate, certain, and wrong.”

— Bobby Adair

“It is the child of avarice, the brother of inequity, and father of mischief. It has been the ruin of many worthy families, the…

— Ron Chernow

“the rulers were, in serious senses, whether willingly or unwillingly, the prisoners of their own rhetoric; they played games of power according to rules…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“From this perspective, we were all divine Shakespeares, creating and playing the roles of muscled heroes and conniving villains, pious saints and debauched sinners,…

— Jonathan Talat Phillips

“In The Gulag Archipelago, for example, Alexander Solzhenitsyn remarks that Shakespeare’s evildoers, Macbeth notably among them, stop short at a mere dozen corpses because…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“In every house, there was always one malcontent jealous prick out to destroy everyone else just for spite. The entire history of the earth…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon