Court Theatre or Royal Court Theatre may refer to:
- Court Theatre (Chicago), a theatre in Illinois
- Court Theatre (Tennessee), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Carroll County
- Court Theatre (New Zealand), a theatre company in Christchurch
- Court Theatre of Buda, a theatre in Budapest, Hungary
- Royal Court Theatre, a theatre in London, U.K.
- Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, a theatre in England, U.K.
Famous quotes containing the words court and/or theatre:
“Follow a shaddow, it still flies you;
Seeme to flye it, it will pursue:
So court a mistris, shee denyes you;
Let her alone, shee will court you.
Say, are not women truely, then,
Stil’d but the shaddowes of us men?
At morne, and even, shades are longest;
At noone, they are or short, or none:
So men at weakest, they are strongest,
But grant us perfect, they’re not knowne.
Say, are not women truely, then,
Stil’d but the shaddowes of us men?”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“Mankind’s common instinct for reality ... has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life’s supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man’s frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.”
—William James (1842–1910)