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092 _a822.33
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049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aStott, Andrew McConnell,
_d1969-
_eauthor.
_9394403
245 1 0 _aWhat blest genius? :
_bthe jubilee that made Shakespeare /
_cAndrew McConnell Stott.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bW.W. Norton & Company,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _axxii, 249 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 203-235) and index.
520 _a"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.
600 1 0 _aShakespeare, William,
_d1564-1616
_xAnniversaries, etc.
_9394404
600 1 0 _aGarrick, David,
_d1717-1779.
_9394405
651 0 _aStratford-upon-Avon (England)
_xHistory
_y18th century.
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