Shakespearologist

English Alternative forms en Shakespeareologist rare Etymology From en Shakespeare ologist. Pronunciation en ɒlədʒɪst 5 Noun One who studies the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare (1564–1616). en The Missouri Republican 15,880 St. Louis, Mo. 24 August 1873 4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/666826149/ 3 We learn that “Mr. G. Linnæus Banks, the eminent Shakespearologist and Shakespearolator,” is coming to America to “orate.” en w:St. Louis Globe-Democrat 1 152 St. Louis, Mo. 18 October 1875 4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/571093178/ 4 This constant effort to hamper and confine the works of genius within the narrow limits of time and space, is matched by the pedantry of the German Shakespearologists (an abominable word to express a horrid thing), one of whom is reported to have devoted a lengthy treatise to discussing the question whether Juliet’s nurse’s husband really was “a merry man,” as his widow claimed him to be, or whether it was not more likely that he had been a very serious character, transformed after death into a memory of what his widow would have liked him to be. en The Henry Irving Shakespeare w:The Pall Mall Gazette XLIX 7619 London 19 August 1889 2 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/392622722/ 3 We are sure to find here “the better opinion” of the most expert Shakespearologists. en Commodore What Price Kansas? Chicago Daily Tribune CV 34 Chicago, Ill. 8 February 1946 16 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/372656696/ 3 Otherwise I shall offer it on the same terms to the united nations for the construction of a mid-Atlantic homesite as a substitute for the one Mr. Eugene Tunney, the Shakespearologist, is so reluctant to surrender. en Results of the Bard Brain Contest w:Evening Standard London 4 August 1994 29 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/724645119/ The overall winner of a pair of tickets to the RSC’s autumn production of his choice, is Richard Fife of Nottingham, whose answer to the tie-breaker, asking why he would be a good Shakespearologist, was the most drily succinct: “I have receding hair and a small beard. I was once ordinary Brain of Britain. I love Shakespeare. My answers would be usually entertaining and often right.” Related terms en Shakespearology en eponyms en William Shakespeare