Word: shakespearean
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Calling himself "a Shakespearean," Seng added that he will leave it up to the Cornell Wordsworth to include the poem in their series. "But the Cornell editors told me I could publish the poem if I wanted to," Seng said...
Tyrone, meanwhile, has injured every member of his family with his unrelenting stinginess, having lost his grand chance of becoming a great Shakespearean actor. When Mary was ill after giving birth to Edmund, he hired a cheap, incompetent doctor who introduced her to morphine and whose improper medical care caused Edmund's serious tuberculosis...
...memorable effect. Many of his selections are in fact from speeches in which Shakespeare insisted on the stage as a metaphor for the world. A scholar might find this oversimplified, but show folks have always had to seek a human-size passageway into the labyrinth of the great Shakespearean texts. The cheerful energy this approach releases in McKellen and the air of confidentiality it gives his evening are entrancing...
Slight of build, with an eminently squinchy face, McKellen is not an overwhelmingly noble presence. His Shakespearean range is probably closer to Ralph Richardson's than Olivier's. But he has wit, a mime's command of body language, and the antic courage of an impressionist. There is wonderful calculation in the way he flings himself about the stage and trots through history giving persuasive impersonations of predecessors like Richard Burbage and David Garrick, as well as such critics as Pepys and Shaw...
...Spotsylvania Court House, "Why, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- " But premeditated last words - the deathbed equivalent of Neil Armstrong's "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," the canned speech uttered when setting off for other worlds - have a Shakespearean grandiloquence about them...