''The Jubilee'' is a 1769 play by the British playwright and actor-manager

David Garrick David Garrick (19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of European theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil and friend of Sa ...

, with music by Charles Dibdin. It was based on his ''Shakespeare Pageant'' which he had originally planned to stage during the Shakespeare Jubilee in

Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon (), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, north-we ...

until heavy rain forced it to be abandoned. It was first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre on 14 October 1769 and proved a major success, running for ninety performances. This allowed Garrick to recoup much of the money he had spent on the Jubilee celebrations. A recording of ''The Jubilee'', also including ''Queen Mab'' and ''Datchet Mead'', was released in 2019 featuring the singer Simon Butteriss and the keyboardist Stephen Higgins.

References

Bibliography

* Nicoll, Allardyce. ''A History of English Drama 1660–1900. Volume III: Late Eighteenth Century Drama''. Cambridge University Press, 1952. * Pierce, Patricia. ''The Great Shakespeare Fraud: The Strange, True Story of William-Henry Ireland''. Sutton Publishing, 2005.

External links

Retrospect Opera: The Jubilee
1769 plays Plays by David Garrick {{18thC-play-stub