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Shakespearian

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Shake·speare  (shkspîr), William 1564-1616.
English playwright and poet whose body of works is considered the greatest in English literature. His plays, many of which were performed at the Globe Theater in London, include historical works, such as Richard II, comedies, including Much Ado about Nothing and As You Like It, and tragedies, such as Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. He also composed 154 sonnets. The earliest collected edition of his plays, the First Folio, contained 36 plays and was published posthumously (1623).

Shake·speare·an, Shake·speari·an adj. & n.
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Noun1.Shakespearian - a Shakespearean scholar
bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student - a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
Adj.1.Shakespearian - of or relating to William Shakespeare or his works; "Shakespearean plays"
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Shakespearian [ʃeɪksˈpɪərɪən] ADJshakespeariano


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A German gentleman in the train had said that a Shakespearian play was an appreciated treat in Germany and that we should find the house filled.
In an- other bill he was the "world-renowned Shakespearian tragedian, Garrick the Younger, of Drury Lane, Lon- don.
And here, with all possible deference to Bruno as a Shakespearian critic, I must express my opinion that the poet did not mean his three great tragic heroes to be so strangely alike in their personal habits; nor do I believe that he would have accepted the faculty of turning head-over-heels as any proof at all of royal descent.
 
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