Katharina Howard, oder: Krone und Schaffot : Historisches Trauerspiel in 5 Abtheilungen nebst einem Vorspiel genannt: Der Schlaftrunk in 1 Akte, ca. 1860-1895.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Jerrmann, Eduard, 1798-1859.

Language:

German

Physical Description:

1 item

Contained In:

Learned Collection on German-Language Theater. Folder 201.

Place of Publication:

ca. 1860-1895.

Language Note:

In German.

Summary:

The item is a handwritten transcription of the play that has been annotated as a prompt-book. The text is bound by hand (sewn) into a small, hard, rectangular green- or aqua-colored binder embossed with a floral design. The title page of the play appears twice, once in the front and once in the back, with slight variations in the subtitle (above is the more complete form). Pasted to the front cover is a label marking the item as the property of Theodor Bloch, who was an actor and later a prompter in German-language theater in Philadelphia beginning around1873, and who ran a theater lending library from around 1880 to the mid 1890s. The title is listed in Bloch's catalog for his library (dated 1886; see box 34). The actual text, however, appears to stem from an earlier period, or a different milieu. On the second inside page the item is labeled, in the same handwriting as the text, as the property of "C. Wolff," and is also marked with a stamp and signed "Carl Wolff," who apparently was among the cast members who performed the play. Next to the character list, names of cast members are noted in 3 columns, possibly indicating 3 different casts over time. The only possibly relevant reference in the collection's holdings of theater newspapers and playbills is an unelaborated advertisement in March 1886 of a scheduled performance of a play entitled "Catharina Howard," which may or may not be identical with the work by Jerrmann (see oversized playbill, folder 722).