Soft Flowing Avon
Appearance
"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.