Shakespeare

Examples

• What about Shakespeare? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• If you do, Robert, I'll take Shakespeare away; and I'll shrivel up within myself, and put on my bonnet and go home. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You're a regular Shakespeare! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Shakespeare, in Anthony and Cleopatra (Act II, Scene 5), makes the latter say, Let us to billiards. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Why, Jo, your stories are works of Shakespeare compared to half the rubbish that is published every day. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I must read Shakespeare? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I know all Shakespeare's plays. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• And sure enough there was a book on the table which had the air of being very recently closed: a volume of Shakespeare. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• If you wanted to educate a child, would you teach him to read one play of Shakespeare, or would you teach him to _read_? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In the meantime, I was absolutely charmed with Shakespeare. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Jo regarded them as worthy of Bacon, Milton, or Shakespeare, and remodeled her own works with good effect, she thought. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• In particular, it was clear to me, that she thought Shakespeare a terrible fellow. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• You have read Shakespeare, and do not know what a peerage is! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Here's Shakespeare, she said, and there's 'Coriolanus. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The artist had given it a head that would have been, in an intellectual point of view, top-heavy for Shakespeare. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Copies of this brochure are as scarce to-day as First Folio Shakespeares, and command prices equal to those of other American first editions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

Edited by Cathryn