Shakespeare's age when he wrote King Lear? (8)
I believe the answer is:
jacobean
'shakespeare's' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'age when he wrote king lear?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'when' could be 'e' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'e' is found in the answer.
'he' could be 'jacob' and 'jacob' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'an' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for jacobean that I've seen before include "Early Seventeenth-century" , "Relating to James I's era" , "of Scottish king" , "Early 17th-century" , "From the time of James I" .)