#shakespeare

I have grown up loving Shakespeare. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#i #loving #shakespeare #up

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think. ↗

— Colin Firth

#country #denying #english #english people #exist

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

#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

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. ↗

— John Lithgow

#me #milk #mother #shakespeare

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