Der Sohn der Wildniss : Dramatisches Gedicht, ca. 1866-1886.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Halm, Friedrich, 1806-1871.

Language:

German

Physical Description:

16 items

Contained In:

Learned Collection on German-Language Theater. Folders 154-159

Place of Publication:

ca. 1866-1886.

Language Note:

In German.

Summary:

The play was first published in 1843. The file contains materials related to rehearsal and performance, including a published copy (Wien: Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1866; fifth edition), which has been annotated as a prompt-book; a handwritten scenario; and 14 handwritten role books, for the following parts: der Timarch von Massalia; Polydor, ein Kaufmann; Myron, ein Waffenschmied; Adrast,ein Bürger von Massalia; Amytas, ein Bürger von Massalia; Lykon, ein Fischer; Ingomar, Anführer einer Herde Tectosagen; Alastor, Trinobant, Ambivar, and Novio (alle Tectosagen); Actäa, Myrons Hausfrau; Parthenia; and Theano, eine Nachbarin Myrons. (Two additional characters listed in the published copy are Elpenor, ein Bürger von Massalia; and Samo, ein Tectosage.) The published copy bears a sticker on the front inside cover from the publisher and bookseller E. Steiger, on Frankfort Street, New York City; the book has been labeled by hand on the first inside page as the property of Theodor Bloch, who was active in German-language theater in Philadelphia beginning around the mid 1870s, and who ran a theater lending library from around 1880 to the mid 1890s. The role books are bound in blue covers of a uniform appearance, and bear the names of actors and actresses who played the roles at different times, representing at least six or seven different casts. The names from what appear to be the most recent performances are recognizable from the casts of other German-language plays performed in Philadelphia in the 1870s through the early 1880s. The collection's holdings of theater newspapers and playbills contain only one very brief reference to this play (see playbill of 24-28 May 1879, folder 678), with no cast listing; the names of actors and actresses noted by hand next to the list of characters in the published copy correspond very well to cast members active in Philadelphia around 1879.