Shakespeare Criticism Quotes

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to that stuff. "Thee and thous" - the guy sounds like a faggot.

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

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

Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

I've hated poetry ever since I was at school. I include Shakespeare in that. I don't understand the obsession with him!

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

I have a personal issue with Shakespeare. When I first encountered him, he made me feel thick. Well, not him, but the productions I saw.

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.