Soft Flowing Avon

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"Soft Flowing Avon" is a 1769

Shakespeare Pageant performed at the Drury Lane Theatre. The song and the Jubilee were part of the growing culture of Bardolatry
which sprang up in the eighteenth century.

References

  • Shaughnessy, Robert (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2007.