Foreign Performances of Shakespeare
Foreign performances of Shakespeare in many ways parallels the larger narrative of theatrical history. This also speaks to Shakespeare’s global outreach as it has grown and will continue to do so.
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Famous quotes containing the words foreign, performances and/or shakespeare:
“It’s not that I don’t want to be a beauty, that I don’t yearn to be dripping with glamor. It’s just that I can’t see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.”
—Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901–1979)
“This play holds the season’s record [for early closing], thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence it ran just five performances too many.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“‘Tis a common proof
That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)