Shakespearean
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- adjective
- /ʃeɪkˈspɪr.i.ən/
- Literature
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shakesperiano
- Many high school students study a Shakespearean play as part of their literature curriculum.
- Shakespearean tragedy
- Shakespearean sonnet
- Shakespearean character
It's almost a perverse, terrible Shakespearean tragedy to say on display.
- It's almost a perverse, terrible Shakespearean tragedy to say on display.
- Like he does these performances in like plays, Shakespearean plays constantly.
- So here's an actor who's being natural, and then suddenly he becomes very Shakespearean.
- So I have to ask, why do you think humans are attracted to this kind of Shakespearean drama?
- But we are in the land of Seinfeld and Philip Roth, and this poem is actually a Shakespearean sonnet, albeit with fuzzy rhymes.
- It's, it's not like Shakespearean simple words, but still OK.
- And I remember that one of our textbooks was quite Shakes, Shakespearean in nature.
- Amazing story, Shakespearean quality, fantastic script, totally different.
- So like the kind of actions and ways the babies see the world as like more fundamental than the beautiful Shakespearean language you construct on top of it.
Examples
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In one monologue, Ahab challenges Moby Dick in Shakespearean style.
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It's the only time when I really narrowed in on a famous piece of Shakespearean prose.
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Well, it was the classic Hollywood five act structure, Shakespearean style five act structure.
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Amazing story, Shakespearean quality, fantastic script, totally different.
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JIM: It all feels so Shakespearean.
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This is like kind of Shakespearean sadness.
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Not many Shakespearean productions seem to have been staged in Spain during the Civil War.
Academic text (2018) -
Twin brother and sister Sebastian and Olivia create confusion in this Shakespearean comedy.
Fiction book (1993) -
More than any other Shakespearean tragedy, Macbeth thematically shows melodramatic responsiveness.
Academic text (1992) -
The poet adopts the Shakespearean anti-Shylock archetype to curse the Jordanian Shylocks.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
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Like the plays and writing of William Shakespeare
Compounds
- Literature
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A 14-line poem that has three four-line parts and final two lines with the rhyme abab cdcd efef gg
Surface Forms
Morphology
Shakespearean = Shakespeare (transparent) = Shakespeare + an
Derived directly from the proper name 'Shakespeare' with the productive adjectival suffix '-an' meaning 'of or relating to Shakespeare'.
Etymology
Shakespearean comes from the name Shakespeare, made of the words 'shake' and 'spear', and the ending -an which means 'related to' or 'from'. That is why something is called Shakespearean when it is like or from Shakespeare's plays.