TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stott,Andrew McConnell
TI  - What blest genius?: the jubilee that made Shakespeare 
SN  - 9780393248654
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Shakespeare, William,
KW  - Garrick, David,
KW  - Stratford-upon-Avon (England)
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-235) and index
N2  - "In September 1769, three thousand people descended on Stratford-Upon-Avon to celebrate the artistic legacy of the town's most famous son, William Shakespeare. Attendees included the rich and powerful, the fashionable and the curious, eligible ladies and fortune hunters, and a horde of journalists and profiteers. For three days, they paraded through garlanded streets, listened to songs and oratorios, and enjoyed masked balls. It was a unique cultural moment--a coronation elevating Shakespeare to the throne of genius. Except it was a disaster. The poorly planned Jubilee imposed an army of Londoners on a backwater hamlet peopled by hostile and superstitious locals, unable and unwilling to meet their demands. Even nature refused to behave. Rain fell in sheets, flooding tents and dampening fireworks, and threatening to wash the whole town away."--Page [2] of cover
ER  -