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I desperately miss the pseudo-Shakespearean dialectical wrangles and the exhilarating sense of CGI discoveries that mark George Lucas’s last forays into the franchise.

From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2017

He’s a pseudo-Shakespearean devil, a cunning exploiter of defects.

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2016

If characters are alternately speaking in pseudo-Shakespearean gibberish and emitting ferocious GRAWWWWWs, your child is watching “Spartacus.”

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2013

Haley is an interesting fellow, an Academy Award nominee who tries to invest the character with a combination of bulldog-fireplug tenacity and pseudo-Shakespearean villainous darkness.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2010

After seeing the pseudo-Shakespearean parody about Johnson and the death of President Kennedy, the London Daily Mail's critic growled: "Immeasurably witless rubbish."

From Time Magazine Archive