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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Orson Welles

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Charles Darwin

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

Ted Rall

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

Spike Milligan

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

Mandy Patinkin

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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Orson Welles

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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Charles Darwin

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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

Ted Rall

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I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

Spike Milligan

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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

Mandy Patinkin

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One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

Patrick Stewart

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Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

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It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?

Jonathan Miller

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I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

Karen Allen

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English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

Lytton Strachey

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