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Definition of Bardolatry
1. Noun. The idolization of William Shakespeare.
Definition of Bardolatry
1. Noun. excessive or religious worship of William Shakespeare ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bardolatry
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bardolatry
Literary usage of Bardolatry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dramatic Opinions and Essays, with an Apology: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"Nor does he claim priority in those attacks upon Shakespeare which he so happily
terms, bardolatry. You may notice after reading his critical animadversions ..."
2. Bernard Shaw by Holbrook Jackson (1907)
"bardolatry. Judicious readers of his prefaces will recognise that his act is not
an act of false criticism, but of justifiable iconoclasm. ..."
3. Three Plays for Puritans by Bernard Shaw (1906)
"... of those works that coincided with the movement for giving genuine instead of
spurious and silly representations of his plays. So much for bardolatry! ..."
4. Misalliance: The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. With a by Bernard Shaw (1914)
"... idolize Paderewski, and who carried bardolatry, even in the Bard's own time,
to an extent that threatened to make his reasonable admirers ridiculous. ..."
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