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“Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.”
“Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.”
“Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.”
“Shakespeare is an intellectual miracle.”
“Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.”
“Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers. A sea turn, and other matters
“Shakespeare is God, of course. I have studied his plays for the vast majority of my sentient life. When I was a kid, my parents found an old copy of the LP recording of Richard Burton in John Gielgud's Broadway production of Hamlet and they gave it to me for my birthday. I listened to it till the grooves wore thin and I was off and running.”
“Shakespeare is just some bloke who keeps ranting "what light trough yonder window breaks" its the moon for god sakes!”
“Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.”
Source: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
“Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.”
“Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.”
Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)
“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.”
Source: The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and The last essays of Elia
“Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.”
Source: Al Pacino
“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”
Source: ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)
“Shakespeare is the Joss Whedon of his generation.”
“Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.”
“Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in
the end.”
“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.”
Source: Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses
“Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.”
Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works
“Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.”
“Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings”
“Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
“Shakespeare might have said, we are "consumed with that with which we are nourished by.”
Source: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
“Shakespeare must be a black girl.”
“Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.”
“Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.”
Source: Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes
“Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous and abominable, he very often writes so well that you are loth to believe he could ever have written thus extremely ill.”
Source: Views and reviews
“Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. "You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded him. "Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act," snapped Sir Godfrey.”
“Shakespeare queried 'if music be the food of love, play on'; Well, I say laughter is life's champagne cocktail and humourlessness its bitterest rigour mortis vinegar. So sup well!”
“Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.”
“Shakespeare’s enduring tragedy did its part to further the goals of the Mercenaries—glamorizing death, making dying for love seem the most noble act of all, though nothing could be further from the truth. Taking an innocent life—in a misguided attempt to prove love or for any other reason—is a useless waste.”
Source: Juliet Immortal
“Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anything, willing to use anyone, in order to escape from that hell.”
Source: Scandal of the Year
“Shakespeare's sister as I had made it, is that any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village, half witch, half wizard, feared and mocked at. For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty.”
Source: Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own
“Shakespeare's strengths and there are many include his unique ability to vastly improve pre-existing plots and turn them profoundly dark and tragic or lightly comedic and romantic at will. There is also The Bard's lyrical, complex dialogue encoded with hidden meaning that works both in context and out, his towering, unforgettable characterisations, and the variety and depth of his female characters.”
“Shakespeare’s woes and concerns are all human and can be easily perceived by any reader regardless of religious, ethnic, or educational
backgrounds. To him, human vices are not only odious but pathetic as well. Hypocrisy irks him tremendously, and he is sharply aware of its
stings when he says: “God has given you one face, and you make yourself another” (Hamlet 3.1.).”
Source: Fundamental Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Gender, Psychology and Politics
“Shakespeare’s works portray love in all its complexities: as a force that can be difficult, irrational, transformative, and even tragic. His characters experience the joys and sorrows of love, and through them, Shakespeare presents a wide-ranging and nuanced view of what it means to love and be loved.
By exploring different types of love — from the idealized and spiritual to the comedic and tragic — Shakespeare provides insights into human nature and the ways in which love shapes our lives. Whether through the wisdom of A Midsummer Night’s Dream or the heartbreak of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s portrayal of love remains deeply relevant, resonating with audiences across time and culture.
Shakespeare’s works portray love in all its complexities: as a force that can be difficult, irrational, transformative, and even tragic. His characters experience the joys and sorrows of love, and through them, Shakespeare presents a wide-ranging and nuanced view of what it means to love and be loved.
By exploring different types of love — from the idealized and spiritual to the comedic and tragic — Shakespeare provides insights into human nature and the ways in which love shapes our lives. Whether through the wisdom of A Midsummer Night’s Dream or the heartbreak of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s portrayal of love remains deeply relevant, resonating with audiences across time and culture.
Shakespeare’s works portray love in all its complexities: as a force that can be difficult, irrational, transformative, and even tragic. His characters experience the joys and sorrows of love, and through them, Shakespeare presents a wide-ranging and nuanced view of what it means to love and be loved.
By exploring different types of love — from the idealized and spiritual to the comedic and tragic — Shakespeare provides insights into human nature and the ways in which love shapes our lives. Whether through the wisdom of A Midsummer Night’s Dream or the heartbreak of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s portrayal of love remains deeply relevant, resonating with audiences across time and culture.
Shakespeare’s works portray love in all its complexities: as a force that can be difficult, irrational, transformative, and even tragic. His characters experience the joys and sorrows of love, and through them, Shakespeare presents a wide-ranging and nuanced view of what it means to love and be loved.
By exploring different types of love — from the idealized and spiritual to the comedic and tragic — Shakespeare provides insights into human nature and the ways in which love shapes our lives. Whether through the wisdom of A Midsummer Night’s Dream or the heartbreak of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s portrayal of love remains deeply relevant, resonating with audiences across time and culture.
Shakespeare’s works portray love in all its complexities: as a force that can be difficult, irrational, transformative, and even tragic. His characters experience the joys and sorrows of love, and through them, Shakespeare presents a wide-ranging and nuanced view of what it means to love and be loved.
By exploring different types of love — from the idealized and spiritual to the comedic and tragic — Shakespeare provides insights into human nature and the ways in which love shapes our lives. Whether through the wisdom of A Midsummer Night’s Dream or the heartbreak of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s portrayal of love remains deeply relevant, resonating with audiences across time and culture.”
“Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.”
“Shakespeare said that poets, lovers, and madmen enjoy absolute freedom.”
Source: Palpasa Café
“Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.”
“Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so”
“Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.”
“Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.”
“Shakespeare should never be a duty.”
Source: The Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard
“Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.”
“Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.”
“Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.”
“Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.”
“Shakespeare used the word 'flush' to indicate plenty of money. Well, just remember there was only one Shakespeare, and he was the only one that had a right to use that word in that sense . You'll never be a Shakespeare, there will never be such another— Nature exhausted herself in producing him.”
Source: How to Speak and Write Correctly
“Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.”
“Shakespeare villains were extraordinary. Macbeth, Iago, Richard III... They're so richly layered that a British actor would find it almost impossible to create a two-dimensional villain, if he's explored in his early years or continues to explore his Shakespearean heritage. You can almost not judge them, if they're played really well.”