Shakespearesque

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1. Reminiscent of the works of William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet.

   I am more interested in the writers that were not influenced by Shakespeare of that period, rather than the sort of Shakespearesque plays.

   2012, Kathryn Prince, Pascale Aebischer, editors, Performing Early Modern Drama Today, Cambridge University Press, page 83

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   Bloom does not say that Shakespeare invented idiosyncratic Shakespearesque characters, he invented the human for all that Hamlet and the rest are Shakespeare's unique creations.

   2007, Dennis O'Brien, Finding the voice of the church, University of Notre Dame Press, page 45

   It's all very clever, this Shakespearesque touch by which the characters reveal a major flaw in Samson's character: his lack of understanding of social relationships and the superior thickness of blood to a recently contracted marriage.

   2018, Mark W. Hamilton, A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament, Oxford University Press, page 128