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名詞

Shakespearology (uncountable)

1. The study of William Shakespeare.
   • 1884, William Archer, “The Local Colour of “Romeo and Juliet””, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume CCLVII, London: Chatto & Windus, […], page 440:

     Now, to maintain that the poet evolved Italian local colour out of his inner consciousness is merely a piece of the supernaturalism which infects Shakespearology.

   • 1886 August 25, “Squire Shakespeare and Shakespeare the Snowman”, in The Pall Mall Gazette: An Evening Newspaper and Review, volume XLIV, number 6690, London, page 5, column 1:

     If there be any knowledge of sublunary things in “the beautiful veiled bright world where the glad ghosts meet,” the shade of Shakespeare must find matter for inextinguishable mirth in the developments of modern Shakespearology.

   • 1984, Jan Kott, “Shakespeare’s Riddle”, in The Theater of Essence and Other Essays, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, →LCCN, page 7:

     Shakespearology feeds not only on Shakespeare, but also on itself. There are over two thousand Shakespeare professorships in the United States alone, and nearly a thousand in the rest of the world.

派生語

• Shakespearologist