What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
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I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.
There was a time when people liked to take Shakespeare and twist him around to make whatever social or political statement they wanted to make.
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.
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.
Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?
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