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We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Others
Elsewhere
Bitten
Shakespeare
Except
Like
Alternate
Cliffs
Beds
Rolling
Accustomed
Where
Sea
Hard
Dover
England
Downs
Chalk
Presents
Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.
Sam Heughan
You
Language
To Be Honest
Shakespeare
Anything
Fantastic
Need
Honest
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.
Samuel Barnett
Saying
You
Learning
Language
Shakespeare
Exciting
New
Like
French
Because
Understand
Just
Taught
Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.
Samuel Barnett
School
Language
First
Past
To Be Honest
Enjoy
Difficult
Shakespeare
Had
Study
Studying
Obviously
Very
Five
Times
Get
Fan
Company
Even
Found
Rounds
Early
Royal
Watching
Career
Honest
Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist who's ever sat down and been moved to create something, has been living in a context. A political moment that's most often reflected in their work. Even if you're, you know, kind of a nature poet.
Sarah Jones
Work
Nature
You
Political
Poet
Down
Living
Every
Playwright
Has-Been
Kind
About
Something
Shakespeare
Songwriter
Know
Look
Most
Talking
Context
Been
Tragedies
Reflected
Greek
Artist
Often
Moved
Whether
Mean
Create
Moment
Sat
Even
Ever
You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.
Satya Bhabha
Home
You
Seen
Stage
Every
Our
Some
Atmosphere
Shakespeare
Protagonist
Yale
Surprise
Up
Escape
Graduated
Moved
Nationality
Grew
Literary
Realized
Ethnic
Actor
Amount
Played
Adaptation
I have an aunt who believed strongly that teaching kids that Shakespeare is 'hard' is wrong, so she handed me 'Hamlet' when I was in kindergarten to see what would happen. What happened was I did a book report on 'Hamlet' and caused quite a lot of trouble!
Seanan McGuire
Me
Book
Trouble
Kids
Would
Kindergarten
See
Strongly
Shakespeare
Wrong
She
Caused
Hamlet
Aunt
Lot
Handed
Report
Did
Quite
Quite A Lot
Happen
Happened
Hard
Teaching
Who
Believed
I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.
Sharon Tate
Myself
Fool
See
Shakespeare
Doing
I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.
Sheridan Smith
Me
Grateful
Theatre
Comedy
Drama
Musical
Musical Theatre
Bored
Shakespeare
Never
Exciting
Most
Get
Done
Working
Now
Thing
There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Writing
Cancer
Big
Hidden
Phrase
Shakespeare
More
He
Idea
Contemporary
Swelling
Even
Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.
Simon Callow
Life
Will
Gone
Everything
Shakespeare
Through
Go
Going
Human
Human Life
Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'
Simon Callow
King
King Lear
About
Shakespeare
Dementia
Know
Wrote
Lear
Need
In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.
Simon McBurney
Time
People
City
London
Shakespeare
Over
Were
Same
Same Time
Tokyo
Million
Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.
Sister Souljah
Love
Family
Revenge
About
Shakespeare
Write
Wrote
Same
Same Things
Warfare
Gang
Things
I am rather partial to Shakespeare, though I haven't done loads. But when it's done right, there's nothing like it. There are layers upon layers upon layers, and you unpack new things constantly. I don't know how he knew so many things - about the world, about women, about human nature, life, death, our fears and hopes.
Sophie Okonedo
Life
Death
Nature
You
Women
World
Fears
New Things
Nothing
Human Nature
Our
Though
Hopes
Constantly
About
Rather
Shakespeare
Layers
He
Knew
Partial
New
Like
Know
How
Am
Done
Human
Many
Right
Things
Loads
I've worked in predominately male sets my entire life. Shakespeare? Let's talk about that.
Stephanie Beatriz
Life
Sets
Entire
About
Entire Life
Shakespeare
Talk
Male
Worked
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.
Stephen Greenblatt
Words
Language
First
Before
Astonishing
Out
Shakespeare
Volcano
Never
Had
First Of All
Him
Been
Eruption
Used
English
English Language
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
Stephen Greenblatt
Love
Man
Language
Young
Shakespeare
Poetry
Remarkable
Perhaps
Know
Most
Wrote
Passionate
Passionate Love
Young Man
Body
English
English Language
It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.
Stephen Greenblatt
Life
Art
Black
Black And White
Real Life
White
Living
Shakespeare
Only
Had
He
Real
Doing
Fancy
Create
Use
Tedious
I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.
Stephen Greenblatt
Matter
Nothing
Believe
Shakespeare
He
Know
Got
Did
Where
Wanted
Working
Even
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.
Stephen Greenblatt
First
Stage
Pleasure
About
Something
Shakespeare
Remains
He
Wrote
First Of All
Interest
Moment
Actually
Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control.
Stephen Greenblatt
Control
Think
Out
Case
Poems
Shakespeare
Fact
Lifetime
Weird
Well
Because
Were
Began
Get
Did
In Fact
Form
Which
Certainly
Originated
Published
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.
Stephen Greenblatt
Truth
Pleasure
About
Shakespeare
He
Know
Himself
Gets
Maybe
Interest
Meaning
Then
Certainly
Eventually
Start
The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.
Stephen Greenblatt
Astonishing
Objects
Shakespeare
Attached
He
Name
Became
Left
Behind
I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.
Steve Coogan
Funny
You
Think
Kids
See
Shakespeare
Always
It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being.
Steven Berkoff
Inspire
Impossible
Favourite
Shakespeare
Since
Parts
Being
Different
Different Parts
Your
Many
Rouse
Plays
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