Shakespeare vs Unshakespearean - What's the difference?
shakespeare | unshakespearean |
(surname)
William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
His works or media adaptations of his works.
(uncountable) Eloquent language, especially English; poetry.
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(countable) A playwright of the standing of William Shakespeare
* 1997 Vivien Allen, "Hall Caine: portrait of a Victorian romancer?"
Not Shakespearean; not thematically or stylistically like the works of Shakespeare.
As a proper noun Shakespeare
is {{surname}.As a noun Shakespeare
is eloquent language, especially English; poetry.As an adjective unShakespearean is
not Shakespearean; not thematically or stylistically like the works of Shakespeare.shakespeare
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)Usage notes
* (William Shakespeare) Note that Shakespeare's manuscripts use a great many different spellings of his surname, way too many to list here. (At the time, some name spellings were much more variable than today, see (w, Spelling of Shakespeare's name) for a list.)Derived terms
* (l)Noun
- Caine, he said, might be a budding Shakespeare but in Shakespeare's time all it took to put on a play was a barn, a crude stage, ...
