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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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = thefreedictionary.com )〕 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.〔G. B. Shaw, ''Three Plays for Puritans'' (1901), (p. xxxi ): "So much for Bardolatry!" See also '(bardolatry, n. )' in ''Oxford English Dictionary'' online edition (subscription required), accessed 14 January 2011〕 Shaw professed to dislike Shakespeare as a thinker and philosopher because he did not engage with social problems, as his own plays did.〔 〕 ==Origins== The earliest references to the idolising of Shakespeare occur in an anonymous play ''The Return from Parnassus'', written during the poet's lifetime. A poetry-loving character says he will obtain a picture of Shakespeare for his study and that "I'll worship sweet Mr Shakespeare and to honour him will lay his ''Venus and Adonis'' under my pillow, as we read of one – I do not well remember his name, but I'm sure he was a king – slept with Homer under his bed's head".〔''The Return from Parnassus'', Act 4, scene 1.〕 However, this character is being satirised as a foolish lover of sensuous rather than serious literature. The serious stance of Bardolatry has its origins in the mid-18th century, when Samuel Johnson referred to Shakespeare's work as "a map of life".〔 〕 In 1769 the actor David Garrick, unveiling a statue of Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon during the Shakespeare Jubilee, read out a poem culminating with the words "'tis he, 'tis he, / The God of our idolatry".〔Michael Dobson, ''The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660–1769'', Oxford University Press, 1992, p.6.〕 Garrick also constructed a temple to Shakespeare at his home in Hampton. The phenomenon developed during the Romantic era, when Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, William Hazlitt, and others all described Shakespeare as a transcendent genius. Shaw's distaste for this attitude to Shakespeare is anticipated by William Cowper's attack on Garrick's whole festival as blasphemous in his poem ''The Task'' (1785). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bardolatry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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