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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.

Shakespeare is universal.

It's extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

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.

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.

You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.