Asking Quote by Suzanne Weyn

“When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He's written "He dies." That's all, nothing more. No fanfare,…

— Suzanne Weyn

“When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He’s written “He dies.” That’s all, nothing more. No fanfare,…

— Dustin Hoffman

“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy,…

— M.L. Rio

When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.

— Robert Wilson

“Shakespeare's plays do not present easy solutions. The audience has to decide for itself. King Lear is perhaps the most disturbing in this respect.…

— Ronald Carter

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

— Louis Auchincloss

“As Shakespeare points out, it is common for people to die. Going”

— Jeff VanderMeer

All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying.…

— Ray Winstone

“Shakespearean tragedies do not deal chiefly with the working-class people and focus mostly on the fall of the kings, princes, generals etc. because a…

— Md. Ziaul Haque

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

If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his perspective; each…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“It may take a decade or two before the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration passes from the graduate seminar to the undergraduate lecture, and finally…

— James Shapiro