Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.
To paraphrase Shakespeare’s Polonius, you sometimes have to get your hands a little dirty to set things straight.
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.
Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.
I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of school and said, 'OK, it will be Shakespeare,' and it was like, 'Or, it will be commercials and soaps.'
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he.
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.
From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful ...
There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.
My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.
The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.
I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.
I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating.
