Meaning of Shakespearologist | Babel Free

Definitions

One who studies William Shakespeare.

Examples

“We learn that “Mr. G. Linnæus Banks, the eminent Shakespearologist and Shakespearolator,” is coming to America to “orate.””

“This constant effort to hamper and confine the works of genius within the narrow limits of time and space, is matched by the pedantry of the German Shakespearologists (an abominable word to express a horrid thing), one of whom is reported to have devoted a lengthy treatise to discussing the question whether Juliet’s nurse’s husband really was “a merry man,” as his widow claimed him to be, or whether it was not more likely that he had been a very serious character, transformed after death into a memory of what his widow would have liked him to be.”

“We are sure to find here “the better opinion” of the most expert Shakespearologists.”

“Otherwise I shall offer it on the same terms to the united nations for the construction of a mid-Atlantic homesite as a substitute for the one Mr. Eugene Tunney, the Shakespearologist, is so reluctant to surrender.”

“The overall winner of a pair of tickets to the RSC’s autumn production of his choice, is Richard Fife of Nottingham, whose answer to the tie-breaker, asking why he would be a good Shakespearologist, was the most drily succinct: “I have receding hair and a small beard. I was once ordinary Brain of Britain. I love Shakespeare. My answers would be usually entertaining and often right.””

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