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/bɑɹˈdɑlətɚ/ · noun
(usually derogatory) One who loves or worships the works of William Shakespeare..
Was Williams enjoying a philistine practical joke at the expense of an intrusive antiquary and transparently naive bardolator?
To Victorian bardolators, Shakespeare was so elevated a hero that he was virtually immobile.
[…] 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.
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Bardolator means (usually derogatory) One who loves or worships the works of William Shakespeare..
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Was Williams enjoying a philistine practical joke at the expense of an intrusive antiquary and transparently naive bardolator?
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