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- noun An inhabitant of the town Stratford-upon-Avon, or any other town called Stratford.
- noun A person who, in the controversy over who wrote William Shakespeare's plays, holds that it was William Shakespeare himself.
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Examples
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In his alarmingly slight chapter on Shakespeare, Ackroyd touches all the familiar references to "the Genius of our Isle" and "the god of our idolatry," and makes the useful point that the modesty of the great Stratfordian is the glass of fashion and the mold of form when it comes to the national liking for self-effacement.
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In his alarmingly slight chapter on Shakespeare, Ackroyd touches all the familiar references to "the Genius of our Isle" and "the god of our idolatry," and makes the useful point that the modesty of the great Stratfordian is the glass of fashion and the mold of form when it comes to the national liking for self-effacement.
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Even in Prof. Fish's own literature classroom, I doubt that the theory that Bacon or the Earl of Oxford wrote Hamlet gets fully equal treatment with the conventional or "Stratfordian" view.
Mark Kleiman: What Sort of "Objectivity" in the Classroom? 2008
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Appended to a Daily Telegraph story about a different Shakespeare-related topic is this news from the world of anti-Stratfordian eccentricity:
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For the rest, he expounded some of the standard anti-Stratfordian delusions, e. g., that Venus and Adonis is exceptionally learned and that the Stratford Man made his money as a “grain trader”.
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For the rest, he expounded some of the standard anti-Stratfordian delusions, e. g., that Venus and Adonis is exceptionally learned and that the Stratford Man made his money as a “grain trader”.
Stromata Blog: 2009
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His Post op-ed follows more ordinary lines, offering the thin, tired, hyper-speculative arguments that have been the anti-Stratfordian stock in trade (leaving the cryptographers aside) for the past hundred years.
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For the rest, he expounded some of the standard anti-Stratfordian delusions, e. g., that Venus and Adonis is exceptionally learned and that the Stratford Man made his money as a “grain trader”.
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Appended to a Daily Telegraph story about a different Shakespeare-related topic is this news from the world of anti-Stratfordian eccentricity:
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The anti-Stratfordian caricature is that the “Stratford Man” was a smug bourgeois without the slightest depth to his soul.
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