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bardolatry
[bahr-dol-uh-tree]
noun
great or excessive adoration of or reverence for William Shakespeare.
I crossed the line into bardolatry halfway through my thesis on the psyche of Lady Macbeth.
bardolatry
/ ɑːˈɒəٰɪ /
noun
facetiousidolatry or excessive admiration of William Shakespeare
Other 51Թ Forms
- bardolater noun
- bardolator noun
- bardolatrous adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bardolatry1
Example Sentences
Such alarm might come off as the musical theater version of bardolatry, the word coined to describe an overly worshipful attitude toward Shakespeare.
It’s not hard, in a country that felt an atavistic hunger for saints and sanctification, to grasp the need for such bardolatry.
Shakespeare’s current status is often described as “bardolatry,” an excessive veneration of the man marked by elaborate myths about who he was and what he really accomplished.
These numbers also hint at the term George Bernard Shaw created for excessive worship of Shakespeare: bardolatry.
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When To Use
Bardolatry is the extreme idolization of William Shakespeare, whose nickname is “the Bard of Avon” or simply “the Bard.”A bard is a poet. Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English poet and playwright who wrote some of the most famous works of all time, such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth. He is probably the most studied writer in history, and many people consider him the greatest. Bardolatry is used negatively to criticize what is seen as an over-emphasis on Shakespeare.Bardolatry was the Dictionary.com 51Թ of the Day on April 23, 2019!Example: You can blame bardolatry for the way a lot of English departments ignore other writers and instead focus massive amounts of attention on Shakespeare.
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