Shakespeare

//ˈʃeɪkspɪɹ//

"Shakespeare" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Only if a foreigner has read much English poetry can he understand Shakespeare.

The Royal Shakespeare Company is presenting The Merchant of Venice next week.

So that Michelangelo might paint certain figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so that Shakespeare might write certain speeches and Keats his poems, it seemed to me worthwhile that countless millions should have lived and suffered and died.

The professor is noted for his study of Shakespeare.

That professor is an authority on Shakespeare.

Stratford-on-Avon, where Shakespeare was born, is visited by many tourists every year.

Shakespeare created many famous characters.

Shakespeare is one of the greatest poets.

Shakespeare wrote both tragedy and comedy.

Shakespeare knew only a little Latin, but he put the little he knew to very good use.

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The name Shakespeare occurs from the 13th century on in the records of various English counties. The first Shakespeare as yet discovered in Warwickshire is one Thomas, a felon, who fled from the law in 1359. Toward the end of the fourteenth century there were landed Shakespeares at Baddesley, and this family held its own into the sixteenth.

He is reading Shakespeare.

I'm surprised that even the allusion to Hamlet flew over his head. Even someone who barely knows Shakespeare might catch that one!

This may not be poetry, but in competition with "Ryan has good velocity and excellent location" it is pure Shakespeare.

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, […]

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