Crossword-Solution: SHAKESPEAREAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shakespearean | a. | Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his works. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “SHAKESPEAREAN”
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| John Gielgud, for one. | 1 answer |
| Kind of sonnet | 1 answer |
| Type of sonnet | 2 answers |
| Type of scholar | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with SHAKESPEAREAN (5)
Neither was what was commonly called the stage door; they were a sort of special and private stage doors used by very special performers, and in this case by the star actor and actress in the Shakespearean performance of the day.
Our cook told my mother (there is a servants’ night, you know) that she and the housemaid were ‘just prood to be able to say it was oor young gentleman.’ To sup afterwards with these clothes on, and a wonderful lot of gaiety and Shakespearean jokes about the table, is something to live for.
Outside the little world of the studio, with its draperies and its _bric-à-brac_, lies the world of life with its infinite, its Shakespearean variety.
Then he went to a village eight miles distant and sent scraps of songs and Shakespearean quotations over the wire.
The ordinary lover of Shakespeare would equally demur to my placing his popular catchpenny plays, of which As You Like It is an avowed type, below true Shakespearean plays like Measure for Measure.
Quotes with SHAKESPEAREAN (3)
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, Miltonic, Johnsonian, Dickensian and American. Military, naval, legal, corporate, criminal, jazz, rap and ghetto discourses are mingled at every turn. The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain i…
If I could mimic the dynamic of any Shakespearean marriage, I’d choose to mimic the Macbeths — before the murder, ruthless ambition, and torturous descents into madness and death, that is.
What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate — to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse — touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1963–1999).