Quotes About Shakespeare

Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control.

The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.

It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.

I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.

Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

Shakespeare is practically our only link with the classic and the past. The future of education has much to do with whether we will be able to cling to him or not.

My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.

Shakespeare was writing about his time, and it was a time when women were beginning to demand a voice, demand a say in their lives for one reason or another, mainly to do with the economics of the time.

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play.

I had a dialect coach from the Royal Shakespeare Company who was from Sheffield.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

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

It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.