Meaning of Shakespearean | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A scholar of the works of Shakespeare.
2. Shakespearean English.
3. A person trained to act in Shakespeare's plays.

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Examples

“Another lawyer and well-known Shakespearian, Richard Grant White, says: "No dramatist of the time, not even [Francis] Beaumont, who was the younger son of a judge of the Common Pleas, and who after studying in the Inns of Court abandoned law for the drama, used legal phrases with Shakespeare's readiness and exactness.[…]"”

“I have had no one to talk to for ages. There’s Ma, who only talks in Shakespearean. And it took me ages to learn that and I still don’t understand the whole thing.”

“Honorable Corps Commander, I am one of your seven personal robots at your residence, and I assure you I am the best. […] I can speak Shakespearean, Hoch Deutch, Urdu, and three other dead languages.”

“No more playing with me like I’m your ball of yarn, Angel of Dipshit. I’m going to fry you so good you’ll start talking in Shakespearean.”

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