"By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door."

"[F]rom the late 1580s the Elizabethan theater was full of Turks, Moors, Persians, and Saracens. Between 1579 and 1624…"

"We [Christians] renounce all your spectacles, as strongly as we renounce the matters originating them, which we know …"

"Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture."

"A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth."

"It was with some such ideas in mind that I started on this play. Or else they developed as I wrote it. Or else I have…"

"The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich."

"All the world's a stage / And all the men and women merely players / They have their exits and their entrances / And …"

"Any beings who are not devoid of passion to begin with, who are bound by the bond of passion, focus with even more pa…"

"A playwright is a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form."