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William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan
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Elizabethan music
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For years, every time Mom brought out Shakespeare's plays, Dad would carry on about how they'd been written not by William Shakespeare of Avon but by a bunch of people, including someone named the Earl of Oxford, because no single person in Elizabethan England could have had Shakespeare's thirty-thousand-word vocabulary.† (source)
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In the Elizabethan Age, the age of the extraordinary, he was exceptional.† (source)
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Their retelling was set in the Old West and completely free of Elizabethan English.† (source)
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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!† (source)
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Emerging at last from the austerity which had plagued them since the second world war, but at the same time facing the loss of their great empire and the inevitable decline of their power in the world, the British had half-convinced themselves that the accession of the young Queen was a token of a fresh start-a new Elizabethan age, as the newspapers like to call it.† (source)
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Two ELIZABETHANS passing the time in a place without any visible character.† (source)
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He's still in costume—a billowing white affair with multicolored polka dots, a triangular hat, and Elizabethan ruff.† (source)
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Do look at this bridegroom coming out of church: did you ever see such a 'sugared invention'—as the Elizabethans used to say?† (source)
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While the Elizabethan age is considered by many historians to be one of enlightenment, given the rise of such geniuses as Shakespeare and Sir Walter Raleigh (see: cape in the mud, etc.), there is no question that Elizabeth, toward the end of her reign, began to behave in an unpredictable and skittish fashion.† (source)
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His mind when wearied of its search for the essence of beauty amid the spectral words of Aristotle or Aquinas turned often for its pleasure to the dainty songs of the Elizabethans.† (source)
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The footman—an imp in Elizabethan dress—was unmistakably haughty and superior.† (source)
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Without Chapman's conceits, Homer's poems would hardly have been what the Elizabethans took for poetry; without Pope's smoothness, and Pope's points, the Iliad and Odyssey would have seemed rude, and harsh in the age of Anne.† (source)
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He is speaking the ancient Elizabethan Kwakwala which the young no longer know.† (source)
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For example, Charles Harrington Elster, cohost of the radio program A Way with Words on KPBS, San Diego, believes our language "is thriving now probably more than at any time since the Elizabethans."† (source)
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