"Drama is particularly an anonymous medium, where collaboration and compromises with actors, directors, theatre managers and censors complicate the picture" 3
"In every play Shakespeare wrote, the hero or central character is the theatre itself" 4
"The trouble is that we don't know the extent of our own minds, or what's in that mental world that we half create and half perceive, in Wordsworth's phrase" 44
"Shakespeare is not interested in what we would normally think of as history. What is really happening in history is extremely difficult to dramatize. Shakespeare is interested in chronicle, the personal actions and interactions of the people at the top of the social order" 59
"successful action and successful timing are much the same thing" 65
"two forms of mask: the hypocrite and the person...there's always a lot of truth in hypocrisy" 66
"The tragic action normally cuts into time, and anyone who, like Hamlet, feels that there is no right time for him" 77
"The first remark Falstaff makes in this play is to ask Prince Hal what time it is, and he is told that such people as Falstaff, who sleep all day and drink all night, don't need to know the time" 77
"a king cannot afford real friends" 78
see pps:
1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 13, 35, 37-39, 41, 45, 47-50, 56-57, 60-63, 68, 71, 72-76, 78-81
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