Example sentences of "[prep] shakespeare [unc] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good example of a small manor house and garden of Shakespeare 's time . |
| 2 | It would have been a mature house already in Shakespeare 's time , a ‘ black and white ’ house , timbered , solid , so perfect a place to live in that it seemed in advance to confer upon its owner grace and taste and superiority . |
| 3 | They were well known in Shakespeare 's time , for in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , Titania remarks about a period of unseasonable weather : |
| 4 | Since so much emphasis falls on the pronouns , it seems to me natural to turn next to the basic grounding of education and humanity in the Renaissance , the trivium ( grammar , logic , rhetoric ) and to ask what these grammatical categories meant in Shakespeare 's time , and what they mean today , so joining the history of grammar — a subject whose importance to the study of literature is seldom realized — to modern linguistics . |
| 5 | In Shakespeare 's time , Julius Caesar and other plays with a historical background were performed in what was then modern dress ( what we would recognize as Elizabethan costume ) . |
| 6 | ‘ In England in Shakespeare 's time , ’ said Owen , disregarding her , ‘ the women 's parts would probably have been played by boys . ’ |
| 7 | They belonged to a category of fabric called fustian ( derived from the name of the Egyptian town where it originated ) , and by Shakespeare 's time the very word fustian had become synonymous with bombast and pretentiousness . |