Shakespeare
/ˈʃeɪkspɪɹ/ verb C2- To act or perform in a play of the works of Shakespeare.
He/she/it Shakespeares · Past Shakespeared · Past participle Shakespeared · -ing form Shakespearing
Verb forms
- Base form
- shakespeare
- He/she/it
- shakespeares
- Past
- shakespeared
- Past participle
- shakespeared
- -ing form
- shakespearing
From the library
This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence.
I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet.
Thus Richard III., for instance, was marvellously served by his conscience after the putting away of the two children of Edward IV.; in fact, he could say, ‘These two children of a cruel and persecuting king, who have inherited the vices of their father, which I alone could perceive in their juvenile propensities—these two children are impediments in my way of promoting the happiness of the English people, whose unhappiness they (the children) would infallibly have caused.’ Thus was Lady Macbeth served by her conscience, when she sought to give her son, and not her husband (whatever Shakespeare may say), a throne.
No, no; like Shakespeare’s Polonius, he died for another.
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