What Blest Genius? The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare by Andrew McConnell StottRequirements: .ePUB reader, 27 MBOverview: 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 […]
The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi: Laughter, Madness and the Story of Britain’s Greatest Comedian by Andrew McConnell StottRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3.6 MBOverview: The son of a deranged Italian immigrant, Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837) was the most celebrated of English clowns. The first to use white-face make-up and wear outrageous coloured clothes, he completely transformed the […]
What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare, 2nd Edition by Andrew McConnell StottRequirements: .MP3 reader, 164 MBOverview: 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 […]
What Blest Genius? The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare by Andrew McConnell StottRequirements: .ePUB reader, 26.1MBOverview: 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 […]
Summer in the Shadow of Byron by Andrew McConnell StottRequirements: ePUB Reader, 5.6MBOverview: Villa Diodati. 1816. In a villa on the shore of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and his young wife Mary, gathered for the summer. For three glittering months, this party of young bohemians would share their lives, charged with sexual and […]