Shakespearemania

English

Etymology

From Shakespeare +‎ -mania.

Noun

Shakespearemania (uncountable)

1. Enthusiasm for the works of English playwright, poet and actor William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
   • 1979, William C. Reeve, Georg Büchner, →ISBN, page 27:

     His veneration and imitation of the English playwright, part of a German tradition of “Shakespearemania” initiated by Herder’s “Shakespeare” essay, has been well documented.

   • 1990, College & Research Libraries, page 570:

     Michael Bristol’s Shakespeare’s America explores the philosophical and cultural background that gave rise to Shakespearemania in the nineteenth century and that has supported its various manifestations down to the present day.

   • 1998, Shakespeare Quarterly, page 421:

     Shakespearemania may have waned slightly since then, but as the 1996 autumn festival in Madrid showed, it is always capable of returning.

   • 2007, Bettina Knapp, Marie Dorval: France’s Theatrical Wonder: A Book for Actors, Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 75–76:

     Shakespearemania prevailed in 1828. Only one year later, another English troupe arrived in Paris featuring William Macready in Macbeth, and some months later, still another exciting visitor, the renowned Edmund Kean, performed in Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, and King Lear.