#shakes

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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You speak an infinite deal of nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #nothing

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. ↗

— James M. Barrie

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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all. ↗

— Edward Bond

#shakespeare #us

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. ↗

— Edward Bond

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Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

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Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

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Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

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We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

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