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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.
I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.
Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?
Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.
Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.