312 Quotes About Plays

Memory, come tell a fairy taleAbout my girl who's lost and gone.Tell, tell about the golden grailAnd bid the swallow, bring her back to me.Fly close to her and ask her soft and lowIf she thinks of me sometimes with love, If she is well? Ask too before you goIf I am still her dearest, precious dove.And hurry back, don't lose your way,So I can think of other things.But you were too lovely, perhaps, to stay.I loved you once. Good-bye, my love.

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

My only wish is to be buried with my books.

Books have power to bring you glory or doom, it all depends on perception.

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.

Aristotle's account of the Katharsis of tragedy was a philosophic presentation of a truth that Homo religiosus had always understood intuitively: a symbolic, mythical or ritual presentation of events that would be unendurable in daily life can redeem and transform them into something pure and even pleasurable.

In the first play, the crisis is Thomas More. In the second it’s Anne Boleyn. In the third book, and the third play, it’s crisis every day, an overlapping series of only just negotiable horrors. It’s climbing and climbing. Then a sudden abrupt fall - within days.

The Greeks believed that it was a citizen's duty to watch a play. It was a kind of work in that it required attention, judgement, patience, all the social virtues.""And the Greek were conquered by the more practical Romans, Arthur.""Indeed, the Romans built their bridges, but they also spent many centuries wishing they were Greeks. And they, after all, were conquered by the barbarians, or by their own corrupt and small spirits.

Thus like a Captive in an Isle confin'd,Man walks at large, a Pris'ner of the Mind