70 Year Magazine Archive

Lightning at Stratford

by Hugh Kenner

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A small Ontario town, where they put up most of the Festival visitors in private homes; a river called the Avon, with swans; leisurely crowds, broad lawns, an unlittered park; above the circular theater Canadian ensign whipping, surrounded by a though here, in the past nine years, 21 different Shakespearean plays have been exhibited to more than a million people, nonetheless, when the trumpets sound, one may reasonably expect little.

Kenner

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