With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
The wonderful thing about the theater is that it can emphasize BOTH our diversity AND our common humanity. In many ways, the world of Shakespeare (or Aeschylus or Racine) is totally different from our world; and yet any human being can look through the differences in dress and mores and discover our common problems, passions, and potentials.
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.
Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read more widely but often less well, especially when what we are reading-such as the plays of Shakespeare and Holy Scripture-is a body of oral material that has been, almost but not quite accidentally, captured in a book like a fly in amber.
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.
Alexandra was tall and blond, with a balcony you could do Shakespeare from.
I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.
This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater.
I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.
Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.
I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I got jobs in professional theatres, repertory, and stock theatres in Canada for a couple of years. And then I went to Stratford, Ontario, where I spent three years with a Shakespeare company. We took a classical play from Stratford to New York City, and I got some good notices there and essentially stayed and did live television. And that brings you to the beginning of filming.
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.
Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers. " There were no agents then.
Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.
The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.
If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.