Introducing Shakespeare: A Graphic Guide - Nick Groom, Piero 2013

Bardolatry

Bardolatry (a word coined by George Bernard Shaw), or Shakesperotics or Bardbiz, is pervasive. Shakespeare is in headlines and cartoons, on cigars, in punk rock (Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols: “I loved Macbeth a gorgeous piece of nastiness”). Shakespeare is on postage stamps, T-shirts and button badges, and even features as a hologram on some credit cards. On BBC Radio 4’s long-running interview programme, Desert Island Discs, castaways are allowed to take ten records to their idyll, a luxury …

… AND ONE BOOK IN ADDITION TO THE BIBLE AND SHAKESPEARE.