[Ads-l] Antedating of "Shakespearean"

[Shapiro, Fred]

This was not THE Samuel Johnson.


Shakespearean (OED a1754)

1733 Samuel Johnson Harmony in an Uproar 5 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)

I have been inspir'd at my lower Vent-hole ... which occasioned my breaking out into the following Rapture, in the Shakespearian or Hurlothrumbian Stile.


Fred Shapiro

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