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Published / Created:
[1755]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B C838 1755
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
This playbill records a performance at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden of The constant couple by George Farquhar (1676-1707) on 22 May 1755 in which Margaret Woffington (1720?-1760) played the leading part of Sir Harry Wildair - one of the roles fo...
Description:
A playbill.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707., Woffington, Margaret, -1760., and Covent Garden Theatre.
Subject (Topic):
Theater
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden, this present Thursday, being the 22d of May, will be acted a comedy, call'd The constant couple; or, A trip to the jubilee. : The part of Sir Harry Wildair by Mrs Woffington ...
Published / Created:
[1832]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B Al452 1832 07/20
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Theatre, Rothbury. Blue Bell Inn
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Davison, printer
Subject (Geographic):
England, Northumberland., and Northumberland (England)
Subject (Name):
Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852., Glengall, Richard Butler, Earl of, 1794-1858., and Kenney, James, 1780-1849.
Subject (Topic):
Theater
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > By desire and under the immediate patronage of Col. Judgson. On Friday evening, July 20th, 1832, will be presented the fashionable comedy of Charles the Second; or, The merry monarch ... To which will be added ... The Irish Tutor; or, The new lights ... The whole to conclude with a truly laughable farce called The illustrious stranger, or, Married and buried ... : Mr. W. Palmer will feel obliged to those shopkeepers who will show the bills to be seen in their windows
Published / Created:
[not before 1798]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B B859++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Title from first line of text.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Bristol., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Theater and Shadow shows
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > By particular desire for this night only, Mr. and Mrs. Gallager respectfully inform the ladies and gentlemen of [blank] that on Wednesday evening, July [blank] at Mr. [blank] they will present A medley of entertainments ... Part I. Mechanism, will be performed The grand le [sic] ombres chinoises ... Part II. Activity, dancing, singing, &c ... By the powers of machinery will be presented an ancient and splendid representation of Egypt, with the town of Rosetta, the places of worship, and ancient fortifications. Likewise the Battle of the Nile, between the English and French fleets ... Neptune riding in his triumphal car ...
Creator:
Published / Created:
1591 May 10
Call Number:
Eliz Vault
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Mock charter
Description:
This manuscript, a unique specimen of dramatic composition by Queen Elizabeth, represents the only surviving piece of stage property from the Elizabethan theater. It was passed from player to player during the great Theobalds Entertainment of 1591, an...
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.
Subject (Topic):
Theater and History
Found in:
Elizabethan Club > Elizabetha Anglo[rum], id est a intore Angelo[rum] Regina fformosissima & felicissima. Too the disconsolate & retyred spryte, the hermyte of Tybolles. ...: manuscript on vellum
Creator:
Published / Created:
1921.
Call Number:
YCAL MSS 1187
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Record of the acting career of Charles B. Wells, typescript carbon copy, bound, dated 1921. Dates, cities, theaters, plays, and roles played by Wells, salaries he received, and names of acting companies and actors with whom he worked are listed in a ...
Description:
Charles B. Wells (1851-1924) was an American actor who performed throughout the continental United States and Hawaii Territory.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Wells, Charles B., 1851-1924. and Players (Club)
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Theater, and Theatrical companies
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fifty years of an actor's work, 1871-1921 : typescript
Published / Created:
[1812]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B Al452 1812 12/14+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Davison, printer
Subject (Geographic):
England, Northumberland., and Northumberland (England)
Subject (Name):
Adcock, Miss (Actor) and Adcock, Master (Actor)
Subject (Topic):
Theater
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > In the Free-Mason's Lodge room, at Mr. Cumming's, Nag's Head, Silver Street. Mr. Adcock respectfully solicits the patronage of the ladies, gentlemen, and public in general, on Monday evening December 14th, 1812 ... will be performed ... The Travellers; or Hit or miss. Consisting of recitations, singing and dancing. By Mr. Master and Miss Adcock, from the Theatre-Royal Newcastle. Part I> Excordium ... PArt II. A lecture upon hearts (with appropriate paintings) ... Part III. The barber's petition ... Tickets to be had of Mr. Davison, printer
Published / Created:
2009.
Call Number:
IN PROCESS FOR DIGITAL PROJECTS
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
A promotional card for a show about Marie Popelin, a Belgian feminist, lawyer, and political activist who was also the first Belgian woman to earn a doctorate in law
Alternative Title:
Spectacle en deux actes de Daniela Coco & Nathalie Penning, Spectacle en deux actes de Daniela Coco and Nathalie Penning, and Legally themed promotional card for a show about the Belgian feminist lawyer Marie Popelin
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium and Belgium.
Subject (Name):
Popelin, Marie
Subject (Topic):
Women lawyers, Women, Suffrage, Women's rights, and Theater
Found in:
Lillian Goldman Law Library > L'épopée Popelin : spectacle en deux actes de Daniela Coco & Nathalie Penning
Published / Created:
[1810?]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B Al452 1810 08/24
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Davison, printer
Subject (Geographic):
England, Northumberland., and Northumberland (England)
Subject (Name):
Colman, George, 1732-1794. and Rutherford (Actor)
Subject (Topic):
Theater
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Never acted here. Theatre, Whittingham-Lane, on Friday evening, August 24th, will be presented the much admired tragedy of Percy, Earl of Northumberland ... End of the play, the following enterments: two entire new comic songs, by Mr. Rutherford. A new comic song by Mr. Lamb, a new comic song & the cottagers hornpipe by Mr. Rutherford ... To which will be added the much admired laughable farce of the Village Lawyer ... Tickets to be had of Mr. Rutherford
Published / Created:
[1707?]
Call Number:
707.00.00.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Fair in an uproar and Dancing-doggs
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Morphew, near Stationers Hall
Subject (Name):
Pinkethman, William, -1725 and Bartholomew Fair.
Subject (Topic):
Opera, Theater, Animals in human situations, Dogs, Fairs, Musicians, Theater curtains, and Trained animals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The fair in an uproar, or, The dancing-doggs : as they perform in Mr. Pinkeman's new opera in Bartholomew Fair
