New Delhi, April 25 -- Arriving at Stratford-upon-Avon on the morning of Good Friday this year, I was filled with apprehension that the day trip my friends and I had planned was going to be a washout. Storm Dave was building up over northern England, Wales and Scotland, threatening to dampen Easter with showers and windy conditions. Like Trinculo, a character in Shakespeare's last play, The Tempest, I muttered under my breath: "another storm brewing; / I hear it sing in the wind." I was reminded of how the first-ever jubilee in Shakespeare's honour was washed away by a storm. In 1769, the London-based actor David Garrick agreed to a proposal by Stratford-upon-Avon's municipal officers to organise a jubilee in honour of William Shakespeare...
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