Christy Desmet collection

Descriptive Summary
Title: Christy Desmet collection
Creator: Schiller, David
Inclusive Dates: 1789-1977
Language(s): English
Extent: 0.5 Linear Feet 1 box, 1 oversized folder
Collection Number: ms4476
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

Dr. Christy Desmet (1954-2018) was the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of English and Director of the First-year Composition Program/UGA Writing Center.

Scope and Content

This collection contains articles, reviews, engravings and broadsides of 18th and 19th Century English Shakespearean performers. Also included are 20th Century artifacts and photographs from Shakespearean plays.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item, box, folder], Christy Desmet collection, ms4476, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

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Related Materials and Subjects

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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Helen Faucit - Engraving

 

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Helen Faucit - "As You Like It" program - Haymarket Theatre, 1873 December 20

 

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Helen Faucit - Article in The Bailie, 1879 March 19

 

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Edwin Forrest - Engraving

 

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Henry Irving - Cabinet card

 

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Henry Irving - "Much Ado About Nothing" program - Royal Lyseum Theatre, 1882 December 23

 

1	7	Henry Irving - "MacBeth" program - Royal Lyseum Theatre, 1889 January 18
		includes insert regarding Henry Irving being unable to appear on the 18th or 19th due to a severe cold, and features Ellen Terry as Lady MacBeth.

 

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Fanny Kemble - Engraving

 

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Fanny Kemble - Six Favorite Characters - Colored print

 

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Fanny Kemble - Article in The London Journal, 1847 June 5

 

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Lola Montes - Article in Theatrical Beauties, no. 2, 1847 May 8

 

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Sarah Siddons - Engraving

 

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Ellen Terry - Postcards (2), Carte de visite

 

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Correspondence - Alfred Courtenay of Ellen Terry Co. to Mrs. James B. Pond at Theatre Royal, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1904 March 21

 

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Correspondence - G.C.H. Lewis to Mrs. Ellena Kean, 1866 June 28

 

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Entre to the Opera, or Dick Wildfire and his Friends going to see "Life" among the Figuantes - Hand colored engraving, 1822

 

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Satirical print - Animals depicting Shakespearean actors - Hand colored etching, 1827

 

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Satirical print - Theatrical Portraiture no.1 - Henry V - Hand colored engraving, 1789

 

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Hodgson's New Characters - Romeo and Juliet - Engraving

 

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Orlando and the Wrestler from "As You Like It" - Engraving

 

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Lover of Shakespeare - Engraving

 

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Broadside - William Blanchard, Mr. Simpson and his Wonderful Dog Carlo - Theatre Royal, Birmingham, 1827 August 8

 

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Broadside - Edwin Forrest - "Othello" - Boston Theatre, 1827 November 9

 

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Broadside - Fanny Kemble - "Provoked Husband" - Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, 1830 May 28

 

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Broadside - Fanny Kemble, Abbott, C. Kemble - "Romeo and Juliet" - Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, 1830 October 4

 

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Broadside - Fanny Kemble, Abbott, C. Kemble - "Hunchback"- Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, 1832 May 23

 

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Irvingana - Henry Irving scrapbook

 

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Hamlet - Model scenery book, 1948

 

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Souvenir program - "As You Like It" - Prince's Theatre, Manchester, 1902 September

 

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Schedule of the reading of Shakespeare plays

 

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Still movie photographs - "Taming of the Shrew" - Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, 1966

 

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Christy Desmet paper - Nineteeth-Century Shakespeare Criticism as Feminine Performance Space

 

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School notebook, 1977

 

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Broadside - Helen Faucit - "Tempest" - Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 1838 November 3

 

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Miss Dada Menken caricature - Cover of La Lune, 1867

 

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Helen Faucit - Review of her as Julia in "Hunchback" - The Illustrated London News, 1852 March 6

 

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Ellen Terry - Article comparing her to Susanna Cibber's depiction of Cordelia in "King Lear" - The Illustrated London News, 1892 November 19