#shakespeare

William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite. Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who does it behind the Dog and Crumpet? ↗

— Marc Norman

#muse #shakespeare-in-love #william-shakespeare #love

...I love Shakespeare, but sometimes....his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.... ↗

— John Geddes

#shakespeare #love

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #men

Well, what do you know? Fakespeare! ↗

— Hillary DePiano

#commedia #parody #shakespeare #the-love-of-three-oranges #art

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#actor #audience #between #exchange #feeling

Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#ensemble #going #hall #happening #home

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#before #brand #brand new #career #done

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#fully #had #hamlet #i #most

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play. ↗

— Renee O'Connor

#i #many #maybe #play #really

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.' ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#big #born #great #greatness #i