Shakespearean
adjective
of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
pre-Shakespearean
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a word derived from
Shakespearean.
Example Sentences
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Demarest was 18 and majoring in Anglo-Saxon and pre-Shakespearean drama at Oxford's Magdalen College in 1942 when he decided to return to the U.S. and help fight the war.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is rather in the more serious or ambitious parts that we find now and then a pre-Shakespearean immaturity of manner.
From The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne
But it seems strange only till we discover that plenty of other pre-Shakespearean and Elizabethan writers made use of them as well.
From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd
“A Lord,” “A Page,” in a pre-Shakespearean play usually was merely a speaker of lines and little, if at all, characterized.
From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker
Gammer Gurton's Needle, the work of William Stevenson, a little-known pre-Shakespearean writer, was acted at Christ's College, Cambridge, shortly after the middle of the sixteenth century.
From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
