#shakespeare

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is. ↗

— Judy Davis

#acting #down #first #great #how

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#extreme #form #shakespeare #theater

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#ever #fascinated #hardly #his #imagination

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before. ↗

— Terri Windling

#adage #before #done #how #old

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#could #i #indeed #knew #literature

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#aloud #became #especially #father #history

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good. ↗

— Robert Graves

#good #people #really #remarkable #say

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. ↗

— Robert Graves

#good #people #really #remarkable #say

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. ↗

— Edward Hall

#desire #dominate #each #human #human nature