Shakespeare

Speech parts

1. Shakespeare - Noun

2. Shakespeare - Proper noun

Meaning

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Shakspere Bard of Avon william shakspere dickens shakespearean bard Huxley Bronte twain tempest Shakespearian Orwell Joyce Austen Kerouac
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Phrases with the word

shakespeare's land sonnets of shakespeare Shakespeare-like

Examples

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good - in spite of all the people who say he is very good. Robert Graves

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. William Hazlitt

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. James Joyce

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. Marshall McLuhan

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. M. H. Abrams

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. Tallulah Bankhead

Close letter words and terms

shakes shakes hands shakes me shakespeare's land shakespearean Shakespearean sonnet