Theatre Critic

Antonio Gramsci

Philosophy

Marxist humanism

1891–1937

"To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act."

🇺🇸Kevin D. Williamson

Education

b. 1972

"When things go sideways in this unhappy world, nobody cries out in the dead of night: “For the love of God, somebody call the Dutch!"

Tom Stoppard

Literature

1937–2025

"(an anguished cry): Consistency is all I ask! (low, wry rhetoric): Give us this day our daily mask."

"I think I was just a very skinless person…And I had this terrible need to confess; and I still do it…It’s a bid to be loved, in some way."

"I like listening to it just as I like looking at a fuchsia drenched with rain."

George Henry Lewes

Philosophy

Positivism

1817–1878

"Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe."

🇬🇧Kenneth Tynan

Literature

1927–1980

"Welles is at once as abnormal and as natural as Niagara Falls."

🇫🇷Octave Mirbeau

Literature

Impressionism

1848–1917

"“During Humankind’s long centuries societies have risen and fallen, all alike in this one fact which rules all history: the great are protected, the small are crushed."

🇫🇷Heinrich Heine

Literature

Romanticism

1860–1931

"If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses."

🇬🇧Robert Graves

Literature

1895–1985

"Official website for 'La Casa de Robert Graves' in Deia, Majorca. Robert Graves Foundation"

🇩🇪Gustav Landauer

Philosophy

Materialism

1870–1919

"Now it can become clear to man that freedom and peace of the nations can only come when as Jesus and his followers, and in our time above all Tolstoi advised, they choose to fully abstain from any violence."

🇺🇸Joseph Wood Krutch

Literature

1893–1970

"When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman."

🇮🇪Bram Stoker

Literature

1847–1912

"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."

🇺🇸Wolcott Gibbs

Literature

1902–1958

"They are detached from the language and inflated like little balloons."

🇫🇷Émile Zola

Literature

Naturalism

1840–1902

"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud."

"A batsman given to run-stealing need not open his mouth to gain the reputation of a wit."