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"Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts."
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"Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world."

"We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works."

"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."

"I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare."

"In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced."

"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."

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

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"I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition."
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