"a purely literal interpretation of the impassioned protestations of affection for a "lovely boy", which course throug…"

"I believe that the luxuriance of Shakespeare's dramatic instinct largely dominates that outburst of lyric melody whic…"

"Every great national literature is a fruit of much foreign sustenance and refreshment, however capable the national s…"

"Discriminating brevity is a law of the right biographic method."

"Reading is a wrestling with ideas greater than any we can create for ourselves. It has been said, a little extravagan…"

"Shakespeare's relations with men and women of the court involved him at the outset in emotional conflicts, which form…"

"Shakespeare avows, although in phraseology that is often cryptic, the experiences of his own heart"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"