Quotes by Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave CBE is an English actress of stage, screen, and television, and a political activist. She is a 2003 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee, and received the 2010 BAFTA Fellowship. Redgrave rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespeare comedy As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since starred in more than 35 productions in London's West End and on Broadway, winning the 1984 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for The Aspern Papers, and the 2003 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the revival of Long Day's Journey into Night.

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QuestionsVanessa Redgrave

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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

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A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.