Shakespeare's Restless World Quotes

“Johnstoune’s copy of the First Folio is now in Meisei University in Tokyo, but I can read it in London on my smartphone.”
― Neil MacGregor, Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era

“Ward je in dieser Laun’ ein Weib gefreit?’: ‘Was ever woman in this humour wooed?”
― Neil MacGregor, Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era

“Elizabethan Twitter feed; they carried news quickly, spread it widely, and their relationship to the truth was similarly easy-going.”
― Neil MacGregor, Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
― Neil MacGregor, Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era

“Napoleon famously said that, to understand a man, you need to understand the world when he was twenty years old.”
― Neil MacGregor, Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era

“CAESAR: Cowards die many times before their deaths: The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”
― Neil MacGregor, Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era

“Nelson Mandela. He signed his name beside this passage on courage and death from Julius Caesar:”
― Neil MacGregor, Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era

“if he acted straightaway, he could prevent his fiancée from being ‘resettled’. He must marry her at once:”
― Neil MacGregor, Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era

“Among the accused was the author of Romeo and Juliet, one William Shakespeare.”
― Neil MacGregor, Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era

“in 1596 a man called William Wayte claimed to have been set upon by four assailants outside the Swan Theatre”
― Neil MacGregor, Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era