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"Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

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"A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived."


"The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think."
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