shakespearean
IPA: ʃeɪkspˈɪriʌn
Root Word: Shakespearean
noun
- A scholar of the works of Shakespeare.
- A person trained to act in Shakespeare's plays.
adjective
- (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.
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Examples of "shakespearean" in Sentences
- Shakespearean authorship question.
- Shakespearean adaptations occur in any era.
- He was also a Shakespearean scholar and biographer.
- A Shakespearean sonnet is both complex and specified.
- A Shakespearean sonnet is both complex and specified .
- That weekend a ball was held in Shakespearean costume.
- Thoughts on "shakespearean insults time for some more"
- Shakespearean drama was another target of their comedy.
- The evocation of the Shakespearean sonnet works in English.
- Look at drive-in movie theaters and the shakespearean stage.
- If it is a replication of the Shakespearean work then you can.
- It is based on the Shakespearean comedy The Taming of the Shrew.
- 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.
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