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Idolization of William Shakespeare
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bardolatry
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n. (context usually pejorative English) excessive or religious worship of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Shakespeare
Wikipedia
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Bardolatry is the worship, particularly when considered excessive, of William Shakespeare . Shakespeare has been known as "the Bard" since the nineteenth century. One who idolizes Shakespeare is known as a Bardolator. The term Bardolatry , derived from ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"worship of Shakespeare (the 'Bard of Avon')," 1901, from bard + -latry .
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n. idolization of William Shakespeare
Usage examples of bardolatry.
If, therefore, even Jonson felt himself forced to clear himself of extravagance and absurdity in his appreciation of Shakespear, there must have been many people about who idolized Shakespear as American ladies idolize Paderewski, and who carried Bardolatry, even in the Bard's own time, to an extent that threatened to make his reasonable admirers ridiculous.