Stephen Greenblatt Quotes

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.

People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.

I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.

I have always been a huge fan of Shakespeare.

I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had a mastery of the English language to some extent.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.

I'm just a woman in love with another woman.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.