bardolator

plural bardolators · alternative Bardolator

1. derogatoryusuallyOne who loves or worships the works of William Shakespeare.

   To Victorian bardolators, Shakespeare was so elevated a hero that he was virtually immobile.

   1994, Nina Auerbach, “Revelations on Pages and Stages”, in Janice Carlisle, Daniel R. Schwarz, editors, Narrative and Culture, University of Georgia Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 29

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   Was Williams enjoying a philistine practical joke at the expense of an intrusive antiquary and transparently naive bardolator?

   1991, Samuel Schoenbaum, Shakespeare's Lives, →ISBN, page 134

   […] such rhetorical elision drew attention less to Aveling's literary and political insight than to his dubious borrowing of the all too available cloak of sentimentality in which Shakespeare was prone to be dressed by bardolators of the Marie Corelli school.

   2012, William Greenslade, “Shakespeare and politics”, in Gail Marshall, editor, Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 242

plural Bardolators

1. Alternative letter-case form of bardolator.

   Although Bardolators may imagine he is an infallible guide to psychology, Shakespeare either did not understand the heritability of personality traits, or chose to ignore it for comedic purposes.

   2013, Robert R. McCrae, James F. Gaines, Marie A. Wellington, “The Five-Factor Model in Fact and Fiction”, in Irving B. Weiner, Howard A. Tennen, Jerry M. Suls, editors, Handbook of Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, volume 5, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 72

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   There would be the dinosaurs still plugging away at scholarship everyone else had abandoned thirty years ago, the hotshot theory heads with their jargon, the Bardolators (often stray actors) and those who treated them as unthinking fans.

   2009, A. J. Hartley, What Time Devours, Berkley, →ISBN, page 45

   I keep returning to Shakespeare in the chapters that follow not because I am a Bardolator (I am) but because he is inescapable for all who came after, in all nations of the world except France, where Stendhal and Victor Hugo went against their country's neoclassical rejection of what was regarded as dramatic "barbarism".

   2011, Harold Bloom, The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life, →ISBN, page 8