SHAKESPEARE

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• SHAKESPEARE (noun)
  The noun SHAKESPEARE has 1 sense:

1. English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)

  Familiarity information: SHAKESPEARE used as a noun is very rare.

• SHAKESPEARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bard of Avon; Shakespeare; Shakspere; William Shakespeare; William Shakspere

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Derivation:

Shakespearean; Shakespearian (of or relating to William Shakespeare or his works)

 Context examples 

No doubt one is familiar with Shakespeare in a degree, said Edmund, from one's earliest years.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In particular, it was clear to me, that she thought Shakespeare a terrible fellow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A Hartfield edition of Shakespeare would have a long note on that passage.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I never knew how much there was in Shakespeare before, but then I never had a Bhaer to explain it to me.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Indeed, I can assure you that a first folio of Shakespeare could not be treated with greater reverence than this relic has been since it came into my possession.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He would write—everything—poetry and prose, fiction and description, and plays like Shakespeare.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

'Rats and mice and such small deer,' as Shakespeare has it, 'chicken-feed of the larder' they might be called.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I glanced over them, noting with astonishment such names as Shakespeare, Tennyson, Poe, and De Quincey.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was several days before Willoughby's name was mentioned before Marianne by any of her family; Sir John and Mrs. Jennings, indeed, were not so nice; their witticisms added pain to many a painful hour;—but one evening, Mrs. Dashwood, accidentally taking up a volume of Shakespeare, exclaimed, We have never finished Hamlet, Marianne; our dear Willoughby went away before we could get through it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I also became a poet and for one year lived in a paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)