#shakes

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

#anything #knows #legend #nobody #person

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

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo. ↗

— Aaron Yoo

#been #doing #dream #else #everyone

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. ↗

— John Lithgow

#me #milk #mother #shakespeare

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#determines #different #different view #election #friends

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

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#certainly #eventually #gets #himself #i