#spear

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#ibsen #pay #rarely #rent #shakespeare

A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No one has made any real attempt to recover the loves and the laughter of Elizabethan England. The low dark arches, the low strong pillars upon which Shakespeare's temple rests we can all explore and handle. We can all get into his mere tragedy; we can all explore his dungeon and penetrate into his coal-cellar, but we stretch our hands and crane our necks in vain towards that height where the tall turrets of his levity are tossed towards the sky. Perhaps it is right that this should be so; properly understood, comedy is an even grander thing than tragedy. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#shakespeare #tragedy #dreams

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare. ↗

— Ted Rall

#perfectly #position #shakespeare #valid

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#lot #shakespeare #theories

Seeing Shakespeare in the Park, for me, it's just this side of feeling like you've witnessed some kind of magic. It's this spell that you're under, to be part of that! ↗

— Julia Roberts

#just #kind #like #magic #me

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. ↗

— Washington Irving

#enchanter #fantasy #heart #imagination #magic

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#comedy #i #i love #improv #love

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempting #best #collect #directly #drama

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish. ↗

— Allan Carr

#i #i think #rubbish #shakespeare #think

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

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