shakespeare
IPA: ʃˈeɪkspɪr
Root Word: Shakespeare
noun
- A surname.
- William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
- His works or media adaptations of his works.
- A place name:
- A village in Perth East township, Ontario, Canada, named after the playwright.
- A ghost town in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States.
- (uncountable) Eloquent language, especially English; poetry.
- (countable) A playwright of the standing of William Shakespeare
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Examples of "shakespeare" in Sentences
- Shakespeare was the consummate dramatist.
- In Shakespeare, the Jew is the victim of the gentile.
- CNN: No longer the most trusted name in news. shakespeare
- William Shakespeare was born to a Catholic recusant family.
- The Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter is the bulletin of Oxfordians.
- An abiding preoccupation was the Shakespeare authorship question.
- Numberless portraits have been falsely identified with Shakespeare.
- All that bardolatry means is the excessive adulation of Shakespeare.
- Moby Shakespeare contains the complete unabridged works of Shakespeare.
- Clicking on any of these links runs a default search for 'shakespeare'.
- As befits the genre, the tragic ending of Shakespeare's play is avoided.
- Within the academy, of course, Shakespeare's preeminence is unquestioned.
- I set the hook on a fish and my shakespeare wonderglas rod broke in two at the ferrel.
- A search just on 'shakespeare' is the kind of basic search that I'd expect a school child to do once.
- Anonymous said ... words of wisdom and Naomi Klein -- monkeys, typewriters, shakespeare and all that.
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- If a monkey tapping at random on a keyboard end up with a shakespeare play like Hamlet, I will not say that the play isn´t an amazing work of art.
- I'm so ashamed, a thousand years of cultural heritage, creative minds such as shakespeare and turner. constable's amazing landscapes and lucian freud's warped nudes. but what the dicken's is this?
- The taste changes that "shakespeare" and "the blues" are different examples of the same phenomenon - the process by which groups of intellectuals decide to write about artists who already enjoy an audience and "elevate" the status of that artist within their own group.
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