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bardolatry
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"worship of Shakespeare (the 'Bard of Avon')," 1901, from bard + -latry.
Wiktionary
n. (context usually pejorative English) excessive or religious worship of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Shakespeare
WordNet
n. idolization of William Shakespeare
Wikipedia
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 Shakespeare's sobriquet "the Bard of Avon" and the Greek word latria "worship" (as in idolatry, worship of idols), was coined by George Bernard Shaw in the preface to his collection Three Plays for Puritans published in 1901. Shaw professed to dislike Shakespeare as a thinker and philosopher because the latter did not engage with social problems, as did Shaw in his own plays.
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.