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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.
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.
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.
Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.
A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.