Shaksperian
- a word derived from Shakspere.
Example Sentences
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Drayton's sonnet-sequence, the Idea, follows the Shaksperian form; and the present specimen illustrates how the important division of this type of sonnet is between the quatrains and the final couplet.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
In diction he was the most Shaksperian of the Elisabethan dramatists, and there are sudden gleams of beauty among his dark horrors, which light up a whole scene with some abrupt touch of feeling.
From Brief History of English and American Literature by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
Two of Verdi's latest operas had Shaksperian themes, 'Otello' and 'Falstaff.'
From A Book About the Theater by Matthews, Brander
It explains the origin of the Shaksperian drama, the high-water mark of modern art.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
He was one of the most noted Shaksperian scholars in the world.
From The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 by Various
