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Shakespearean

Shakespearean \Shake*spear"e*an\, a. Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his works. [Written also Shakespearian, Shakspearean, Shakspearian, Shaksperean, Shaksperian.etc.]

Usage examples of "shakespearean".

What has always moved me most in the Arthurian myth is the deep sense of loss that informs the story, the awareness of inescapable tragedy, not merely on a personal level, as in a tragic Greek or Shakespearean play, but on a cosmic plane, the plane of myth.

He was Cluny, of Cluny and Clancy Shakespearean Players, by God, and he and Clancy had a show to put on!

Cluny and Clancy, of Cluny and Clancy Traveling Shakespearean Players.

To a situation like that of the banishment he proved easily equal: indeed, he gave that magnificent outburst of scorn with tremendous power: but it was in the pathetic scene with Volumnia and Virgilia that he reached the summit of the Shakespearean conception.

It is the old Shakespearean law of biodegradables the 'thief that feeds and breeds by a composure stolen from the general excrement.

The ordinary lover of Shakespeare would equally demur to my placing his popular catchpenny plays, of which As You Like It is an avowed type, below true Shakespearean plays like Measure for Measure.

Mars and all forward images were obscured by the four-sun glare of the engines, but Mahnmut passed the time by checking on video of the hull, the stars astern, and by rereading parts ofÀ la recherche du temps perdu and finding connections and disparities with his beloved Shakespearean sonnets.

The Shakespearean work to which I actually do owe a debt here came along about eight years after Merchant.

An unabridged reading of LotR (by Rob Inglis, a Shakespearean actor) is available from Isis Audio Books [50 hours!

Vonnegut: I hope my relief is more helpful than Shakespearean comic relief.

Would he sweep her into his arms, pull the pins from her hair, and make her feel as if she were the star of a Shakespearean sonnet?

She had traveled all the way from Peru to deliver one half of a Shakespearean sonnet.

Hearst was now behaving like a Shakespearean tragic hero, in search of a fifth act.

Notice that there is no rhymed couplet at the end, as is found in Shakespearean and Wordsworthian sonnets.