characteristic of the plays and poetry of the English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare (d.1616)
Shakespearean drama pertains to life. It embodies a spirit of vitality, good humour and irreverence, encompassing everything from refined court wit to cheap fart jokes. A freedom and breadth of emotional expression, roaming with seeming randomness from the despair of the suicide to the joy of the young lover, and happy to include the mild boredom of the bureaucrat along the way. An almost infinite inclusiveness – Dominic Dromgoole
Shakespearean noun
Shakespearian noun