What Blest Genius

Author : Andrew McConnell Stott
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780393248654

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What Blest Genius? by Andrew McConnell Stott Pdf

Winner of the 2019 Marfield Prize for Outstanding Writing About the Arts The remarkable, ridiculous, rain-soaked story of Shakespeare’s Jubilee: the event that established William Shakespeare as the greatest writer of all time. 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. Told from the dual perspectives of David Garrick, who masterminded the Jubilee, and James Boswell, who attended it, What Blest Genius? is rich with humor, gossip, and theatrical intrigue. Recounting the absurd and chaotic glory of those three days in September, Andrew McConnell Stott illuminates the circumstances in which William Shakespeare became a transcendent global icon.

Author : Andrew McConnell Stott
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780393248661

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What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare by Andrew McConnell Stott Pdf

The remarkable, ridiculous, rain-soaked story of Shakespeare’s Jubilee: the event that established William Shakespeare as the greatest writer of all time. The remarkable, ridiculous, rain-soaked story of Shakespeare’s Jubilee: the event that established William Shakespeare as the greatest writer of all time. 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. Told from the dual perspectives of David Garrick, who masterminded the Jubilee, and James Boswell, who attended it, What Blest Genius? is rich with humor, gossip, and theatrical intrigue. Recounting the absurd and chaotic glory of those three days in September, Andrew McConnell Stott illuminates the circumstances in which William Shakespeare became a transcendent global icon.

Author : Nora Nachumi,Kristina Straub
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532645

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Making Stars by Nora Nachumi,Kristina Straub Pdf

Making Stars provides multiple perspectives on the simultaneous emergence of modern forms of life writing and celebrity culture in eighteenth-century Britain. Crossing multiple genres and media, contributors reveal the complex and varied ways in which these modern ways of thinking about individual identity mutually conditioned their emergence during this formative period.

Author : Johnathan H. Pope
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030337261

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Shakespeare’s Fans by Johnathan H. Pope Pdf

This book examines Shakespearean adaptations through the critical lens of fan studies and asks what it means to be a fan of Shakespeare in the context of contemporary media fandom. Although Shakespeare studies and fan studies have remained largely separate from one another for the past thirty years, this book establishes a sustained dialogue between the two fields. In the process, it reveals and seeks to overcome the problematic assumptions about the history of fan cultures, Shakespeare’s place in that history, and how fan works are defined. While fandom is normally perceived as a recent phenomenon focused primarily on science fiction and fantasy, this book traces fans’ practices back to the eighteenth century, particularly David Garrick’s Shakespeare Jubilee in 1769. Shakespeare’s Fans connects historical and scholarly debates over who owns Shakespeare and what constitutes an appropriate adaptation of his work to online fan fiction and commercially available fan works.

Author : Peter Barnes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472537126

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Jubilee by Peter Barnes Pdf

An RSC commission to commemorate the first celebration of Shakespeare's life and works A mischievous satire on the foundation of the Shakespeare industry: In 1769, when David Garrick staged the first theatre festival to celebrate the life of Stratford's most famous son, little did he realise the impact it would have on the future livelihood of the small Warwickshire market town. Peter Barnes' ironic and irreverent new comedy dissects the cult of the theatrical personality, with guest appearances from the Bard himself, Ben Jonson, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, Sir Peter Hall and Peter Barnes."Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre" (Plays and Players)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433076029432

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The British Poets by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Churchill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026869104

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The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill. With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author by W. Tooke by Charles Churchill Pdf

Author : Charles Churchill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11391341

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The Poetical Works of (Charles) Churchill, (Thomas) Parnell and (Thomas) Tickell by Charles Churchill Pdf

Author : Charles Churchill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000130572401

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The Poetical Works of Churchill, Parnell, and Tickell by Charles Churchill Pdf

Author : John Everett Brady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Women authors, Italy
ISBN : HARVARD:32044072056815

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Women in Roman Literature ... by John Everett Brady Pdf

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521803411

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Shakespeare Survey: Volume 54, Shakespeare and Religions by Peter Holland Pdf

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of the previous year's textual and critical studies and of major British performances. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. The current editor of Survey is Peter Holland. The first eighteen volumes were edited by Allardyce Nicoll, numbers 19-33 by Kenneth Muir and numbers 34-52 by Stanley Wells. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start. For the first time, numbers 1-50 are being reissued in paperback, available separately and as a set

Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3E11

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Poetical Works by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCLA:L0066354770

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Fraser's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Southey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025147126

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Specimens of the later English poets, with preliminary notices by R. Southey by Robert Southey Pdf

Author : Great Western Railway (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : England
ISBN : UIUC:30112070021610

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Historic Sites and Scenes of England ... by Great Western Railway (Great Britain) Pdf