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Stratfordian, n. (a.)|strætˈfɔədɪən|
[f. the name of the town Stratford-upon-Avon, War., birthplace of William Shakespeare + -ian.]
1. One who lives in or was born in Stratford-upon-Avon.
1821J. Saunders Let. 8 June in A. Mathews Mem. Charles Mathews (1839) III. ix. 204 Intreating a line when you have anything desirable to impart to the Stratfordians. 1909‘Mark Twain’ Is Shakespeare Dead? 58 Stratfordians who were not Stratfordians of Shakespeare's day, but later comers. 1963Times 12 Feb. 11/4 It is likely that the Stratfordians thus deprived of some edification from the pulpit were less put out than those who now find the harmonies of a concert-platform sadly broken.
2. A supporter of the view that Shakespeare was the author of the plays generally attributed to him. Also as adj. Cf. Shakespearian a. (and n.) b.
1908G. Greenwood Shakesp. Probl. Restated 172 Really, really, there must be some limits even to Stratfordian demands on our credulity! Ibid. 226 The futilities which are gravely trotted out by enthusiastic Stratfordians as valuable evidence to illustrate the life of Shakespere. 1912[see over-prove s.v. over- 27 a]. 1930P. Allen Case for E. de Vere as Shakespeare 6, I remained an orthodox Stratfordian until 1923. Ibid. 26 All these discoveries and inferences..were fast and firmly establishing the case for Oxford, at the same time that they were destroying utterly the Stratfordian arguments. 1962Economist 28 July 364/2 His work..made him a ‘convinced Stratfordian’. |