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We see that all over the British Empire territory; Shakespeare is exported and that Shakespeare remains, which is one of the reasons why Shakespeare is world famous. Germany had a special affection for Shakespeare and has always had that, I think. This helps to explain why he continues to be popular in other cultures, because he always seems like a modern playwright with new translations being lavished upon him.
So, back to Paul to introduce the Garrick Jubilee for us. EDMONDSON: A really important moment in the 18th century for the popularity of Shakespeare came with the great actor David Garrick, who in , was invited by the corporation the borough of Stratford-upon-Avon to hold a special celebration of Shakespeare, which he did in the form of a jubilee in that September. It was the first time really that Shakespeare broke out of the playhouses and out of the libraries, and onto the streets among the people.
In fact, one of the things that is notorious about the Garrick Jubilee is that not a word of Shakespeare was spoken. His fame was so kind of self-assured in the minds of those who were gathering to celebrate him that they were celebrating, as it were, the name and the reputation already, rather than the work itself.
There was a great ode spoken in a temporary theatre pavilion that Garrick had built on the site of the current Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Garrick himself spoke the ode and was given the Freedom of the Town of Stratford and Thomas Arne, who wrote Rule Britannia , wrote the music for the ode.
The jubilee itself transferred to the West End of London and became a show in its own right and very popular. My final clip from Paul today is about this purchase. Then, it fell into further private ownership and the whole site came up for auction in There was a public feeling that monies could be raised in order to secure the memorial for Shakespeare through the Henley Street house.
Monies were collected in Stratford and London via committees: the London committee included Charles Dickens among its members and enough money was raised for it to be accepted by the auctioneers in September That meant that the house was effectively in public ownership and a trust, what became the Birthplace Trust, really started with the purchase of the house.
It was a conservation purchase, it was self-consciously an effort to commemorate Shakespeare through a living memorial: a house. My next clip is from Ben Crystal, who is an actor, director and producer, who has a slightly different take on this question than my previous speakers about how Shakespeare has been turned from a playwright and man of the theatre into a legend and man of the millennium.
There was always someone at the top of the tree. It was Marlowe who had the notion that if I give my characters poetry to speak, as their dialogue, and a particular type of poetry with a particular type of rhythm, that has the same rhythm as spoken English then they will sound normal and natural and at the same time at the same time heightened.
Shakespeare took that idea and ran with it and realised that if he bent and broke that rhythm every now and again that it would replicate the same sort of non-fluency that we have now: the stuttering and the hesitations and the pauses and the fast-paced dialogue that the Greeks hundreds and thousands of years before had called stichomythia rapid dialogue in poetry and plays. These are all things that we can relate to around the world; love and loss, yearning and hatred, jealousy and death.
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