#spear

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#famous #get #hogwash #i #interest

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#got #i #i can #myself #need

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#come #cows #discovery #home #i

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

— Lloyd Alexander

#dickens #friends #greatest #many #mark

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

— Edward Bond

#being #greeks #human #human being #meant

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

#aspect #come #contact #even #exaggerate

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

#certain #certain point #fact #goes #idea

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

#alone #any #arrive #cannot #dramatic

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#characters #courage #darker #elements #face

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#english #english language #know #language #love