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Theatre Royal playbills
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Drury Lane Theatre |
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Dates: |
1796-1834 |
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This collection contains 13 broadside playbills from Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden advertising a variety of
dramas, operas, comedies, and other performances from 1796 through 1834.
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ms4219 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Title: |
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden broadsides
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Theatre Royal, Covent Garden |
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Dates: |
1816 September 13-1821 January 29 |
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The collection consists of 92 broadsides advertising plays presented at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden from September 13,
1816 to January 29, 1821. The broadsides feature the names of many famous performers of the day including Charles Kemble,
William Charles Macready (making his "first appearance in London" in the play "Distressed Mother," on the second theatre broadside
in this group, dated September 16, 1816), Charles Mayne Young, William Farren, Joseph Grimaldi, Eliza O'Neill, and Catherine
"Kitty" Stephens among others. Among some of the advertised plays are Mrs. Centilivre's Comedy "The Wonder," a new musical
play "Guy Mannering," "Othello," (the parts of Othello and Desdemona being being played by Young and O'Neill), "Romeo and
Juliet," (with J.P. Warde and Sallie Booth in the title roles), "As You Like It," "Henri Quatre, or Paris in the Olden Time,"
"Comedy of Errors," King Richard III," a new tragedy "Virginius; or The Liberation of Rome," "Coriolanus," "Wallace, a Tragedy
in Five Acts," (its performance, with Macready in the leading role), "Harlequin and Friar Bacon," (a new comic pantomime,
with parts played by both Joseph Grimaldi and his son), etc.
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Identifier: |
ms4188 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Seymour Hicks papers
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Hicks, Seymour, Sir, 1871-1949 |
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Dates: |
1815-1948 |
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The collection consists of papers of Sir Seymour Hicks from 1815-1948. The collection includes loose correspondence (1856-1948),
invitations, autographs, newspaper clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks. The scrapbooks contain photographs of various British
actors and actresses and correspondence. The collection includes material on such well known individuals as David Lloyd George,
the Earl of Westmoreland, Lord Cromer, who was Lord Chamberlain, Gerald DuMaurier, Maude Adams, George M. Cohan, and Consuelo
Marlborough.
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Identifier: |
ms971 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Arthur W. McDonald collection of theatre engravings and playbills
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Creator: |
McDonald, Arthur W. |
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Dates: |
1767-1915 |
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The collection consists of 18th and 19th Century British theatre playbills and engravings that document the Yorkshire theatre
circuit and non-Yorkshire theatre. Of note are playbills and engravings related to the Kemble family, Elizabeth Inchbald,
and productions at Drury Lane and Covent Gardens.
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Identifier: |
ms3762 |
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Hargrett Library |
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