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US
/ˌʃeɪkˈspɪɹiən/
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ADJECTIVE
-
of or relating to William Shakespeare or his works
Shakespearean plays
NOUN
- a Shakespearean scholar
How To Use Shakespearean In A Sentence
- Shakespearean tales of love as sacrifice, conquest or unrequited passion are beyond reason.
- And that the children of the unwanted should be those that returned to the old world in convoys and troops ships to liberate Italy and France and Holland and the countries which didn't want their ancestors is an idea that's almost Shakespearean. The Canadian Experience: Lessons from the Canadian History Project
- That said, the story lacks the classic satiric or thematic bite of a Shakespearean or Molierian work.
- It was a homemade Shakespearean tragedy being played out among our own pasteboard pavilions.
- But an individual in Shakespearean England who firmly believed that all tomatoes are Killer Tomatoes was not being unreasonable or irrational, as we would be apt to judge someone who held that belief in modern America. Am I a Relativist? Well, It Depends.
- Our comic play was a burlesque of a Shakespearean tragedy.
- And once their fairytale officially ended, relations between them became the stuff of Shakespearean drama, with intrigues, infidelities and fights for centre-stage.
- The artists built the city of Boston on stage, and I wrote a kind of heroic Shakespearean text in blank verse and rhyme (which two characters recited) about the city's history.
- “Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds,” which was the first Shakespearean example to come into my head. The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs”
- It was daring of Mr. Holroyd to take on a major writer, and for all his forcing of themes, the book thrives on sheer wit and, most important, on welcome asides, when he steps forward like a Shakespearean character to soliloquize about his modus operandi. The Biographers' Biographer