What Blest Genius

Author : Andrew McConnell Stott
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393248658
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Blest Genius? written by Andrew McConnell Stott and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0393248666
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare written by Andrew McConnell Stott and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1644532646
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Stars written by Nora Nachumi and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 303033726X
Total Pages : 191 pages
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Download or read book Shakespeare’s Fans written by Johnathan H. Pope and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1472537122
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jubilee written by Peter Barnes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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)

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Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Poets written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Churchill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill. With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author by W. Tooke written by Charles Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Churchill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
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Download or read book The Poetical Works of (Charles) Churchill, (Thomas) Parnell and (Thomas) Tickell written by Charles Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Churchill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Churchill, Parnell, and Tickell written by Charles Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James L. Gordon
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Total Pages : 406 pages
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Download or read book The Young Man and His Problems written by James L. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: