David Garrick Part 2: The Shakespeare Jubilee

How David Garrick and Stratford-upon-Avon celebrated the “great extravaganza“ of Shakespeare’s Jubilee. Professor Ewan Fernie of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, explains the plans and what actually happened. This year marks 250 years since Garrick’s 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee, which launched Stratford-upon-Avon as the epicentre of the Shakespeare industry.