Shakspere
noun
William. Shakespeare, William.
Shaksperian
-
a word derived from
Shakspere.
Example Sentences
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Why should not Fletcher himself for once have caught the Shaksperian manner?
From Philip Massinger by A. H. Cruickshank
The Taming of the Shrew is, therefore, one of the least Shaksperian of Shakspere's plays; a bourgeois, domestic comedy, with a very narrow interest.
From Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
In those marvelous stories of his, who has not recognized a Shaksperian catholicity in the quest of fact and a Shaksperian alchemy in its transformation?
From How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest by Rudyard Kipling
We at once smile, and remember his fellow-forger Ireland's Shaksperian Promissory note, before such things were invented.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
In the Shaksperian drama the underlying convention is that the persons of the play belong to a race of people who always express themselves poetically in English blank verse.
From A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews
