Shakespeareana
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of Shakespeareana
First recorded in 1710–20; Shakespeare + -ana
Example Sentences
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Theaters wishing to honor him would be better advised to grapple with his works and leave the Shakespeareana to the tourist shops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2018
The full pedigree is given, and the monuments at Yoxall are described in Shaw's "Staffordshire," and in French's "Shakespeareana Genealogica."
From Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
But they show, at least, a sound acquaintance with Shakespeare and Shakespeareana, and some of them, like the articles of Just Bing, Brettville Jensen, Christen Collin, and August Western, are interesting and illuminating.
From An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Martin Brown Ruud
The fifth volume of the 'Cambridge History of English Literature' contains some 47 pages of Shakespeareana in the bibliographies to Chapters VIII. to XII.
From The Book-Hunter at Home by P. B. M. Allan
The next chapter in Norwegian Shakespeareana is a dull, unprofitable one—a series of articles on the Baconian theory appearing irregularly in the monthly magazine, Kringsjaa.
From An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Martin Brown Ruud
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