Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.
Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.
I had always wanted to retell a Shakespeare play. It was an ambition from college days. But in order to be able to do it... the circumstances in my life didn't come together for a long time.
Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.
And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.
If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.
I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.
Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.