At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged characters. He understood the passion, the confusion and drama that marks that life stage.
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I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.
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.
Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.
I grew up with Shakespeare, and there are so many wonderful teachings in those plays. The stories are all so unique and timeless. There is just so much learning in that body of work, and that is something I will always go back to.
I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
I studied Shakespeare in college, but not theatrically, more in terms of literature, and then I kind of took a break from it. Now there's resurgence in my appreciation for him. It's amazing: there are so many book titles and song titles that come just from lines that he wrote.
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
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