Rowleian

English Alternative forms en Rowleyan Etymology en :af Rowley -ian + 1 Adjective en literature Of or pertaining to the literary style and characters of plays by William Rowley (ca1585-1626), English playright. en 1988 Ann Thompson The Modern Language Review 83 4 945n http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-7937(198810)83%3A4%3C945%3AWSA'BO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9 The style of which is neither Rowleian nor Shakespearean but a particular blending of both. en 1991 Mark Dominik William Shakespeare and the Birth of Merlin William Rowley 33 http://books.google.com/books?id=XL2XzEAKBzQC&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=%22rowleian+clown%22&source=web&ots=5EN2Lz1eGE&sig=_U4ntITODivkE6sksACgIrMBTsc Tim [Bloodhound] shows many signs of being a typical Rowleian clown; he is a fat clown, judging from his joke about breaking his girdle. en literature Of or pertaining to the work of (fictional) poet Thomas Rowley, a pseudonym of Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), English poet. en 1782 Horace Walpole The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford 319 http://books.google.com/books?id=pvQkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA319&lpg=PA319&dq=rowleian&source=web&ots=wkDTtX3pXy&sig=N9mnVvXrKz1y703sc9bqHJx2suU Mr. Tyrwhitt's book on the Rowleian controversy, which is reckoned completely victorious, are all the novelties I have seen since I left town. en 1898 Henry A. Beers A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15447/15447-8.txt Chatterton... also imparted to Barrett two Rowleian poems, "The Parliament of Sprites," and "The Battle of Hastings" (in two quite different versions). en 1898 Henry A. Beers A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15447/15447-8.txt Tyrwhitt pointed out that the Rowleian dialect was not English of the fifteenth century, nor of any century, but a grotesque jumble of archaic words of very different periods and dialects. en eponyms