Coriolanus

Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

On a day-alack the day!- Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care

What Elizabethan playwrights learned from the Greek classics was not theories of insanity, but dramatic practice - that is, madness is a dandy theatrical eleme…

'Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you - what - was there not sad stuff?'

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.