montage of objects produced to celebrate Shakespeare's life and work
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We've been celebrating Shakespeare every year since 1769

That year, the London actor David Garrick arrived in Stratford, to stage a commemorative spectacular for Shakespeare.

Since then, medallists and craftsmen have marked later celebrations by dusting down and refreshing old likenesses.
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Why change his image?
To celebrate him?
To promote him?
To play at politics?

To reinvent him?
the early likenesses
 his first published portrait One from the family gallery
his funeral bust
 A stately statue

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