shakespearean

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All Gordon Brown could respond with was "Et tu brutus", as his premierships final days fast resemble a shakespearean tragedy.

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  1. Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his works.

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  1. a Shakespearean scholar
  2. of or relating to William Shakespeare or his works

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  • All Gordon Brown could respond with was "Et tu brutus", as his premierships final days fast resemble a shakespearean tragedy. —  PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All
  • It was akin to a shakespearean play, which would have to be restaged and performed anew for each generation. —  The ADD Blog at Comic Book Galaxy
  • Unless the story is shakespearean in it's complexity they don't like it, and even then they'll find something to complain about, some obscure reference that they feel making puts them above everyone else. —  thomas fitzgerald.net
  • 2 hr 57 min ago, -17 / +12 there's definitely something shakespearean how Isreal was humiliated beyond recognition and now is the one pushing the other in the cage. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • Tis fun to speak in shakespearean tones
 

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