FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT SHAKESPEARE
Ø Chronicle plays of Shakespeare are mirror for kings- Schlegel (German critic).
Ø Shakespeare is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers (about plagiarism) -
Robert Greene
Ø Shakespeare is an absolute Johannes Factotum (=Jack of all trades) –Robert Greene.
Ø No man will ever write a better tragedy than King Lear- G.B.Shaw.
Ø He had small Latin and less Greek –Ben Johnson.
Ø The Soul of the age; The wonder of our stage; Not of an age but for all time (Ben Jonson)
Ø Sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy’s Child! --Milton. ;
Ø “Dear son of Memory, great heir of Fame" -Milton.
Ø "Shakespeare has no heroes, but only heroines" -John Ruskin
Ø Shakespeare is compared to Homer- Dryden.;
Ø “I admire him (Ben Jonson), but I love Shakespeare -Dryden.
Ø The most excellent in Comedy and Tragedy- Francis Meres.
Ø Others abide our question, Thou art free (Matthew Arnold)
Ø "Our myriad-minded Shakespeare (Coleridge)
Ø He is a universal poet." (W.J. Long)
Ø I do not remember that any book or person or my life ever made so great an impression upon me as the plays of Shakespeare. (Goethe)
Ø Whenever I am asked "Who is the playwright who has influenced you the most?" I say, "Shakespeare" (Girish Karnad)
Ø "Mellifluous Shakespeare (Thomas Heywood)
Ø "There is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect (Carlyle)
Ø “Indian empire, or no Indian empire. We cannot do without Shakespeare." (Carlyle)
Ø "With this key Shakespeare's unlocked his heart' (Wordsworth)
Ø Hoity toity! A street to explore/ Your house is the exception! With this same key/Shakespeare unlocked his heart' once more” Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he! (Robert Browning in "House")
Ø "A drunkard savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada. (Voltaire)
Ø "When I read Shakespeare, I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language (D H Lawrence)
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