How to Use Shakespearean in a Sentence

Shakespearean

adjective
  • There’s a Shakespearean quality to it, intentional language that makes people remember the words.
    — Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Misty myths of old Britain shape the movie’s iconography (a digital recreation of a legendary tree; a tower of skulls that evokes the country’s Shakespearean heritage).
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a Shakespearean grandeur to David King, the all-powerful New York music-label boss who’s famous for his unerring ability to spot rising talent.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
  • From the Shakespearean reference of Hamlet’s Ophelia to conjuring the greatest showgirl of all time — Elizabeth Taylor — there are lots of places the album could go.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Moons on Uranus are often called the literary moons because they are named after Shakespearean characters, as well as characters from titles by the English author Alexander Pope.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The film is the latest collaboration between Focus Features and Amblin, following Chloé Zhao’s Shakespearean historical drama Hamnet, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025

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