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relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen (1558-1603)

William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan

Elizabethan music
In the Elizabethan Age, the age of the extraordinary, he was exceptional.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or even the Elizabethan men.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher were two dramatists of the Elizabethan age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Cranly's speech, unlike that of Davin, had neither rare phrases of Elizabethan English nor quaintly turned versions of Irish idioms.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Then on a ledge above us I saw one who looked on, but as I pointed him out we saw the Elizabethan top of him scoot away.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
He's still in costume—a billowing white affair with multicolored polka dots, a triangular hat, and Elizabethan ruff.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
He knew nothing of the Elizabethan drama beyond Shakespeare's plays.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
At the other side of the room, further forward, is an Elizabethan chair roughly carved in the taste of Inigo Jones.
George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion
Max turned to see a thin imp dressed like an Elizabethan courtier addressing the crowds from behind the embassy's gated fence.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
The moment, however, that one tries this method with the Elizabethan woman, one branch of illumination fails; one is held up by the scarcity of facts.
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
My friends tell me I have the Elizabethan personality.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Smith Island is one of the many places it's claimed that Elizabethan or Shakespearean English survives.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
He is speaking the ancient Elizabethan Kwakwala which the young no longer know.
Margaret Craven -- I Heard the Owl Call My Name
It is a combination of an African dialect and English; some even claim that remnants of Elizabethan English survive among the Gullah people.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
That's what this figure really comes down to, whether in Elizabethan, Victorian, or more modern incarnations: exploitation in its many forms.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
I could feel the magic taking hold, despite the Arrow of Dodona whispering to me like an annoying Elizabethan stagehand, SAYEST THOU: "PLAGUEY, PLAGUEY, PLAG UEY!
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
I trust he will work that vein further, and recognize that Elizabethan Renascence fustian is no more bearable after medieval poesy than Scribe after Ibsen.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
There was something rather Elizabethan about him—his casual versatility, his good looks, that effervescent combination of mental with physical activities.
James Hilton -- Lost Horizon

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