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The "national cult" of Shakespeare and the "bard" identification date from September 1769 during which the actor David Garrick organised a week-long jubilee at Stratford after the Stratford Corporation proclaimed him "the first honorary freeman of the borough" in May of the same year. In addition to presenting the town with a statue of Shakespeare, Garrick composed a doggerel verse, lampooned in the London newspapers, naming the banks of the Avon as the birthplace of the "matchless Bard" (McIntyre 1999, 412–432).



Title	Shakespeare: For All Time Oxford Shakespeare Author	Stanley W. Wells Edition	illustrated, reprint Publisher	Oxford University Press, 2003 ISBN 0195160932, 9780195160932 Length	442 pages

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