Meaning of Shakespearemania | Babel Free

Definitions

Enthusiasm for the works of English playwright, poet and actor William Shakespeare (1564–1616).

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Examples

“His veneration and imitation of the English playwright, part of a German tradition of “Shakespearemania” initiated by Herder’s “Shakespeare” essay, has been well documented.”

“Michael Bristol’s Shakespeare’s America explores the philosophical and cultural background that gave rise to Shakespearemania in the nineteenth century and that has supported its various manifestations down to the present day.”

“Shakespearemania may have waned slightly since then, but as the 1996 autumn festival in Madrid showed, it is always capable of returning.”

“Shakespearemania prevailed in 1828. Only one year later, another English troupe arrived in Paris featuring William Macready in Macbeth, and some months later, still another exciting visitor, the renowned Edmund Kean, performed in Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, and King Lear.”

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