un-Shakespearean

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From un- +‎ Shakespearean.

Adjective

un-Shakespearean (comparative more un-Shakespearean, superlative most un-Shakespearean)

  1. Not Shakespearean; not thematically or stylistically like the works of Shakespeare.
    • 1916, Edwin E. Slosson, Major Prophets of To-Day‎[1], Boston:
      The cross-fertilization of Elizabethan drama with French symbolism gave rise to the "Princess Maleine", a new species if there ever was one, Shakespearean in form and incident, most un-Shakespearean in everything else.
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