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Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

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.

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

Shakespeare is universal.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

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.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

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.