Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.
Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.
Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.
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.
I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.
Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.