Example sentences for: shakespearean

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

  • Although Rex Harrison died over a year ago, some of his fans still regret that, apart from one try in Much Ado About Nothing , he had never done a Shakespearean comedy.

  • The book's prodigious research is taken to validate the view of Johnson's presidency as a Shakespearean tragedy in which his megalomaniacal commitment to the Vietnam War ruined his ambitious liberal domestic agenda.

  • The Shakespearean (as opposed to the Oliverian or Branaghian) Henry V embodies several telling bits of wisdom for he who would develop the character of a true-blue businessman:

  • This is, to be sure, a super-subtle distinction; but these bits and pieces of Shakespearean usage can make a luminous difference both in reading and in performance.

  • In short, the Republican House has deteriorated into a sub-Shakespearean Elizabethan revenge drama.


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