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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 of more interest that Thomas Lodge mentions the original pre-Shakespearean Hamlet as having been acted in The Theatre.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by Rudd, John

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 Halleck, Reuben Post

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 Swinburne, Algernon Charles

“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 Baker, George Pierce