Word: shakespearianism
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What all the theory comes down to, however, is a bewildering combination of Shakespearian iambics, incessant alliteration, and implausible puns. All of this profuseness of language is rather overbearing, and suggests that Mr. Ashton may be more interested in experimenting with style than in narrating an admirable theme...
...Shakespearian play was originally produced over a year ago--in February, 1956--in the Eliot House dining hall for a week's run. At that time it met with both critical and popular acclaim...
...also questioned the validity of a "Shakespeare boom" in this country. The fact that there were only 286,000 spectators at 22 Shakespearian plays offered in 1955 all over the country could hardly be termed a "boom", Harbage said...
...group staged many plays, including 11 Shakespearian ones, in its brief three-year history. But it could never hope to make money. Eve if the Theater was sold out every night--and it wasn't--there would have been a deficit. The small capacity and the relatively low prices (tickets ranged from $3.30 top to a low of $90--the latter serving as a "come-on for suckers," Bryant Haliday '49 recalls) assured this. In the long run, the players themselves were the "suckers," and the Brattle movie theater opened...
Hunt also pointed out that this was not the first time such as set has been constructed. In 1895, a set was built in Sanders and was used for over twenty years for various Shakespearian productions...