A surname. / William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / His works or media adaptations of his works.

(uncountable) Eloquent language, especially English; poetry. / (countable) A playwright of the standing of William Shakespeare

plural of Shakespeare

A scholar of the works of Shakespeare. / A person trained to act in Shakespeare's plays.

(literature) Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of William Shakespeare (an English playwright), his works, or his authorship, or the time in which he lived.

(poetry) A sonnet comprising three quatrains and a final couplet, in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.

(uncountable, paleologism) The devotion to or the teaching of the works and terminology of William Shakespeare. / (countable) A term coined by Shakespeare, or otherwise derived from his works.

One who believes that Francis Bacon (1561–1626) or a relation of his was the author of the works attributed to William Shakespeare.

Pertaining to the Bacon-Shakespeareans and their beliefs.

plural of Bacon-Shakespearean