Quote

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

Shakespeare is universal.

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

I think there is no world without theatre.

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

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.

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.