Quotes About Shakespeare

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.

I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.

We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find that the serious ethical dilemmas are better handled by Shakespeare and Tolstoy and Schiller and Dostoyevsky and George Eliot than in the mythical morality tales of the holy books.

temos arte e achamos que os sérios dilemas éticos são mais bem abordados por Shakespeare, Tolstoi, Schiller, Dostoievski e George Eliot do que pelas histórias morais míticas dos livros sagrados.

What is your name? asked Lear. Caius, said Kent. And whence do you hail? From Bonking, sire. Well, yes, lad, as do we all, said Lear, but from what town?

Do not bonk the Juliette

Methinks the lady doth protest too much, said Iago. Methinks the lady protests just the right amount, said Emilia. Methinks the lady is just getting fucking started protesting.

Othello, you must, with fearful vigor and utmost alacrity, marry this bitch.

Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted to cut a pound of flesh from the body of the merchant of Venice. Is that a fairy tale?

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

There are seven plots. Shakespeare wrote them better than anyone. If that scares you, leave now." If

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

Perhaps, if hunting had occurred, they had hunted each other through the stacks of books, sending warning shots of Shakespeare over one another's heads.

The new ideology of marriage needed its mythology and Shakespeare supplied it. Protestant moralists sought to redeem marriage from the status of a remedy against fornication by underplaying the sexual component and addressing the husband as the wife's friend.

Everybody who meddles with Shakespeare biography readily accepts that the Bard was unfaithful to his wife and excuses him for it, but infidelity on the part of his wife is sufficient to justify estrangement.

Lest we forget that Shakespeare spelled his surname in five different ways. None of them was S H A K E S P E A R E.

Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55)

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.

The highlight of my undergraduate years was a year-long Shakespeare course I took with Edward Tayler.

You could argue we are a different audience today,but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is that he understands the common denominator of man, his emotions and relationships.

In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had in mind, he simply rewrote it. His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood.

Shakespeare is undoubtedly the greatest dramatist the world has known, and 95 countries translate his work into their languages.