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Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.' — Al Pacino

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral. — Christopher Eccleston

Once more into the breach — William Shakespeare

You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. — Robyn Schneider

Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare. — Alan Ayckbourn

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles. — Annette Bening

WHEN SCHOLARS TALK ABOUT THE SOURCES OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS, they almost always mean printed books like Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles — James Shapiro

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare. — Virginia Woolf

Poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed m — William Shakespeare

In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine. — Samuel Johnson

Mobile phones would have wrecked the plots of most of Shakespeare's plays. — Jackie French

If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul. — William Shakespeare

In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond... — William Shakespeare

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. — Tom Hooper

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done. — Judi Dench

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian. — Samira Wiley

I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot. — Mark Gatiss

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ... in school was a bit of a bore. — Al Pacino

It's the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him. — Amanda Craig

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One man in his time plays many parts — William Shakespeare

It's the one touch of nature that makes the whole world kin. (That isn't original. I got it out of one of Shakespeare's plays). However, — Jean Webster

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada. — Voltaire

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. — Rita Dove

You know I can't stand Shakespeare's plays, but yours are even worse. — Leo Tolstoy

But man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep. — William Shakespeare

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else. — Vivien Leigh

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays. — Andre Holland

Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!' — Jack O'Brien

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet. — Carol Zaleski

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars. — Dominick Dunne

good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. What — William Shakespeare

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn. — Thomas B. Macaulay

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor. — Terry Teachout