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Meanings of shakespearean in English

A Shakespearean scholar.

Shakespearian

Dramatist.

dramatistplaywright
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poet
Usage of shakespearean in English
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We see mothers in fierce, tearless overdrive, like figures from Shakespearean tragedy.
The Guardian
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In a way, both Santa and the Hogfather are communal 'Shakespearean' creations.
The folklore of discworld
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Canadian Shakespearean actor Douglas Rain won the role with neutral, unctuous tones.
Wired
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A Shakespearean actor who declaimed texts in the middle of a roadway.
The new yorker
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Part Shakespearean English, part seventeenth-century sermon: it was Protestant, antipapist, half-pagan, triumphalist.
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
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This plainspoken line is the great Shakespearean response to apologies simple or elaborate.
Bardisms
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It's a Shakespearean tragedy, however, and things do not go well.
Reuters
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The scheme doesn't quite work and J J topples into full Shakespearean madness.
The Irish Times
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Her pantomime-dame antics make Eddie Murphy's Nutty Professor II: The Klumps look Shakespearean.
The Guardian
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In true Shakespearean fashion, Othello takes his own life after realizing his mistake.
Reuters
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For this is primarily what the Shakespearean sonnet suits so well, interior debate.
The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
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Here's a Shakespearean sampler for those Occasions When Love Goes Wrong.
Bardisms
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Gallery: The Forerunners Group in costume for the Shakespearean Pageant of November 1912.
Radio NZ
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It reminds you of the Shakespearean period, but also Verdi's period.
Reuters
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He also admires the latest Shakespearean adaptation -… Read more Audio
Radio NZ
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Next, the Bardism the Marquis de Sade would have spoken, in Shakespearean language:
Bardisms
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