Example sentences for: shakespeare

How can you use “shakespeare” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For a large part of the world--and not only the English-speaking world--Shakespeare remains the inexhaustible source of inspiration for writers, actors, directors, composers, historians, learned societies, linguists, drama schools (where, in America, he is honored more in the breach than the observance), films, academia, literary criticism, bibliographers, translators, painters, pilgrims, philosophers, and psychologists.

  • The word, however, seems to have existed before that, as Shakespeare uses it, also in close conjunction with close-stool, in Love's Labour's Lost , c. 1593, and it achieved an entry in Cotgrave's Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues of 1611.

  • An impressive and thoroughly engaging addition to Shakespeare scholarship, Professor Marvin Spevack's A Shakespeare Thesaurus deserves to take its place in the canon of eminently useful books about the world's greatest dramatist.

  • Shakespeare has coined an expansive image out of the minimum arrangement of this simple word.

  • Shakespeare uses jakes confidently in King Lear (c. 1605):


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