Shakespearean Legacy Quotes

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.

The Germans call him 'Our Shakespeare' because we love him.

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

The British are much more cynical and regard the idea of a Globe reconstruction as an Elizabethan Disneyland. But the Americans have a real hunger for what they see as their history, their culture and their Shakespeare.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.