Elizabethan Drama Quotes

When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.

If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.

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

I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years.

You don't have to go to the kings and queens of the earth - I think the Greeks and Elizabethans did this because it was a logical concept - but every human being is in enormous conflict about something, even if it's how to get to work in the morning and all of that.

When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

The highlight of my undergraduate years was a year-long Shakespeare course I took with Edward Tayler.

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.

I played Shylock in my school's staging of 'Merchant of Venice.'

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

What could be more fitting - or more exciting - than to restage Shakespeare's plays on the very spot where they were first performed, in the shape and style of theater for which they were written?

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and ivory, of dolphins and the juice of July flowers, of the milk of unicorns and panthers’ breath, of ropes of pearl, brains of peacocks and Cretan wine.

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

The Globe is a missing monument. There's no existing example of a theater from Shakespeare's time. You have Roman theaters, Greek theaters, all kinds of theaters, but none in which the plays of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Marlowe were performed. Scholars feel that it would be of immense value to have one.