shakespearean

IPA: ʃeɪkspˈɪriʌn

(literature) Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of William Shakespeare (an English playwright), his works, or his authorship, or the time in which he lived.
Derivative of Shakespeare's works or authorship.
Composed of Shakespearean sonnets.

Examples of "shakespearean" in Sentences

Thoughts on "shakespearean insults time for some more"
Look at drive-in movie theaters and the shakespearean stage.
No, it has to be shakespearean and more serious, like the tones of the series Rome or Gladiator.
MadonnaKonfesses: there is something raw and theatrical, something shakespearean about Krumping.
It was akin to a shakespearean play, which would have to be restaged and performed anew for each generation.
Hmm and there I was thinking he meant comedy in the shakespearean sense.ie everyone ends up married at the end rather than dead like the tragedies.
There are many things to say about the form of sonnets and then shakespearean sonnets are full of obvious or hidden techniques you can focus on: tone, rhyme, language, alliteration, consonance, symbols, metaphors and similes, themes etc.
His SC home town hit hard from all sides from the meltdown and financial woesand the kinder and gentler Shalom over the crustyNew Yorker Greenspinner displayed a shakespearean flare while discussing his boyhood home which was goinginto foreclosure.
Anthony Head as the bumbling art dealer seemed as flustered and unfocused as the rest of the cast making what should have been an entertaining 90 minutes into a rather tedious theatrical event that when it ended, seemed like it had been almost shakespearean in length.