Example Sentences

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The other, back to before Shakespearian times, is drag, a loud, proud and seismically flamboyant artistic expression of gender fluidity.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2023

So says Elizabeth Taylor, summing up the fractious encounter between the revered Shakespearian actor John Gielgud, and her new husband, the actor Richard Burton.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023

Once famed for making watches and cables, the town of Prescot near Liverpool is staging a Shakespearian reinvention.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2022

Tucci fans are crying out for the great man to be given a big Shakespearian role on screen: something like Claudius in Hamlet or maybe Brutus or Coriolanus from the Roman plays.

From The Guardian • Apr. 30, 2020

“I hope that was a monster I just killed. I was a Shakespearian actor in college! Picked up a little swordplay!”

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan