Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
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Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
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 fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
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.
Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.
I've been with Shakespeare all my life.
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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.
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.