“There's a danger in being too reverent. Shakespeare was a populist; he wanted to entertain.”— Terry Hands
“Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise!”— Ben Jonson
“For me, it's a great joy to be a part of a Shakespeare production. The text is the most important thing to me.”— Raúl Juliá
“You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.”— Nicholas Meyer
“In the whole history of art, there is no second example of a genius so universal as that of Shakespeare.”— August Wilhelm von Schlegel
“The whole history of modern poetry is a running commentary on the following brief text of Shakespeare: 'The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact'.”— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel