ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to William Shakespeare or his works
Shakespearean plays
NOUN
- a Shakespearean scholar
How To Use Shakespearian In A Sentence
- Those weren't the first times I "bowdlerized" -- some might say, butchered -- a classic text the term comes from the knuckleheaded 19th century Shakespearian censor Thomas Bowdler. Trey Ellis: Censoring Huck Ain't So Simple
- This Irish-born actor, director, and playwright is best known for his adaptations of Shakespearian plays. Five People Born on December 10 | myFiveBest
- The simple ironic reading is based on the assumption that the high Shakespearian allusions are really inapposite.
- After war service he co-directed with Olivier four fabled repertory seasons by the Old Vic Company in the West End: his great Shakespearian creation was Falstaff in both parts of Henry IV.
- The term romantic is here used in a technical sense; that is, to distinguish the Shakespearian from the Classic Drama. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
- He has no superior as a Shakespearian actor.
- The entries of Shakespearian texts in the Stationers' Register chronicle the publishing fortunes of his poems, individual plays, and the four folios from the 1590s to the Restoration.
- In Shakespearian tragedy, hypocrisy is not only a poison in itself but the cause of ever greater destruction.
- Despite the undeniable influence of earlier models, Shakespearian comedy represents a distinctive dramatic category.
- While in no degree Shakespearian echoes, there are epithalamia and dirges of his that might properly have fallen from the lips of Posthumus in "Cymbeline. Ponkapog Papers.