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Shakespeare|ˈʃeɪkspiːə(r)|
[The name of William Shakespeare: see Shakespearian a. (and n.)]
1. A person (occas. a thing) comparable to Shakespeare, esp. as being pre-eminent in a particular sphere.
1821M. Edgeworth Let. 23 Oct. (1971) 243 Humboldt is the Shakespear of travellers—as much superior in genius to other travellers as Shakespear to other poets. 1859A. J. Munby Diary 17 Mar. (1972) 28 When..the poetic soul..has learnt..to see the poetic side of all such things, then we may have a Homer of the railway and a Shakespeare of the Ballot. 1905‘Mark Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 3 The telegraph, the telephone..the Pullman car..the Shakespeares of the inventor-tribe, so to speak. 1931R. Campbell Georgiad ii. 36 A Fabian Shakespeare of the Summer Schools To other poets laying down my rules.
2. attrib., as Shakespeare collar, (a) = polo collar s.v. polo1 4; (b) (see quot. 1960); Shakespeare country, the part of Warwickshire around Stratford-on-Avon, birthplace of Shakespeare; Shakespeare industry, the large-scale production of writings about Shakespeare, items commemorating Shakespeare, etc.; the commercial exploitation of objects, places, etc., associated with Shakespeare.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 873/1 Cotton Football Shirts..Shakespeare collar, and three buttons. 1913[see polo collar s.v. polo n.1 4]. 1960C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 192/1 Shakespeare collar. 1860's on. A shallow turn-over collar, the points projecting downwards onto the shirt-front.
1900J. Leyland Shakespeare Country 92 This survey of Shakespeare Country has traversed a rich district of middle England that was familiar to the great poet in his boyhood. 1966J. Wainwright Crystallised Carbon Pig iv. 20 The plan worked..as smoothly..as an American tourist's trip through the Shakespeare country. 1972Times 4 Aug. 4/2 The ‘Shakespeare country’ around Stratford-upon-Avon, Oxford and Cambridge are the main non-metropolitan attractions.
1939Brown & Fearon (title) Amazing monument: a short history of the Shakespeare industry. 1958Listener 2 Oct. 523/1 Is not much of this book⁓making on the Bard another branch of the Shakespeare industry? 1962Observer 4 Mar. 13/6 The 1864 affair..marked the dawn of the Shakespeare industry. At Stratford..‘streets were adorned with flags and banners; the townsfolk and visitors wore the..Shakespeare badge’, [etc.].
Hence ˈShakespeare v. intr. (nonce-wd.), to act in a Shakespeare play.
1896G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties (1932) II. 90 Madame de Navarro has declaimed, spouted, statuesqued, Shakespeared, and all the rest of it. |