| Shakespeare's bass viol
While doing a little research for my summer Shakespeare institute at the Huntington Library (outside LA), I came across the following:
In the preparations for David Garrick's Shakespeare Jubilee, held at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1769, (the first big Shakespeare festival ever), an attendee at the festival writes that he:
“..encounters a Banbury man carrying into the town a double bass-viol, on which he was unable to play, but doubted not he would be shown how when the proper time arrived. This musician spoke of the Jubilee as "the celebration of the resurrection of Shakespeare."
The image is just too good to pass up: some guy in the 18th Century, with a bass strapped to his back that he can't play yet, walking to Stratford to help resurrect Shakespeare!
Louis
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