bardolator

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 pron

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

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

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.