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- pluralplural onlyrareRare form of Elizabethiana.
No. 123, Elizabethan Club of Yale [University] (c.1815.Gr.Rev.style); fine coll. of Elizabethana.
1949, “New Haven”, in Henry G[arfield] Alsberg et al., editors, The American Guide: A Source Book and Complete Travel Guide for the United States, New York, N.Y.: Hastings House, →OCLC, page 1962 more examples
The supporting performances — particularly Ciaran Hinds’s Pollitt and Laurance Rudic’s smooth [William Cecil, 1st Baron] Burleigh, both clad in muffling greatcoats rather than the distracting ruffles and swords of stock Elizabethana — are remarkable for their underlying discipline and seriousness of purpose, and the evening as a whole offers a depth and quality of dramatic experience rarely seen on the Scottish — or perhaps on any other — stage.
1985 January 21, Joyce McMillan, “Joyce McMillan reviews Mary Stuart at Glasgow: Shiny [Friedrich] Schiller”, in The Guardian, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 1A grey decaying door like Elizabethana in the dis-United Kingdom pushed open to a stylised summary of the world: the imperceptible fall of Now as fountain, strange nostalgia for paradise.
1995, Chris Bendon, “Arabia?”, in Jewry: A Poetry Collection (Salzburg Studies in English Literature: Poetic Drama and Poetic Theory; 130), Salzburg: University of Salzburg, →ISBN, page 5
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