Category: Shakespeare...

• Shakespeare's plays are performed more often and in more countries than those of any other playwright
• it is not known the exact order in which Shakespeare's plays were written or first produced
• Shakespeare's writings are marked by an unprecedented rich and inventive use of the English language
• learning how to be a Shakespearean actor with Stratford-on-Avon's Royal Shakespeare Company
• To thine own self be true. (William Shakespeare)
• Shakespeare's imaginative visions of pathos and mirth that fill the mind and linger there
• Shakespeare lived apart from his wife and children for at least two decades
• If Shakespeare has a singularity, it is because he has become a black hole. Light, insight, intelligence, matter-all pour ceaselessly into him, as critics are drawn into the densening vortex of his reputation; they add their own weight to his increasing mass. The light from other stars-other poets, other dramatists-is wrenched and bent as it passes by him on its way to us. He warps cultural space-time; he distorts our view of the universe around him. As Emerson said, "Now, literature, philosophy, and thought are Shakespearized. His mind is the horizon beyond which at present we do not see." But Shakespeare himself no longer transmits visible light; his stellar energies have been trapped within the gravity well of his own reputation. We find in Shakespeare only what we bring to him or what others have left behind; he gives us back our own values. (Gary Taylor)
• The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. (William Shakespeare)
• Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is part of a British man's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them every where, one is intimate with him by instinct.-No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays, without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately. (Jane Austen)
• My real pleasure is the 4 times a week, 1800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who died hundreds of years ago. (T. Hands)

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