Die lebendig todten Eheleute : Posse in 1 Akt, ca. 1870, 1880-1895.

Format:

Other

Language:

German

Physical Description:

7 items

Contained In:

Learned Collection on German-Language Theater. Folders 268-270.

Place of Publication:

ca. 1870, 1880-1895.

Language Note:

In German.

Summary:

The play was published anonymously. The file contains materials related to rehearsal and performance, including a published copy (Berlin: Eduard Bloch, n.d.; "Neue Bearbeitung"), which has been annotated as a prompt book; and 6 handwritten role books, for the following parts (the complete list of characters): der Lord; die Lady; Therese, Kammerzofe; John, Kammerdiener; Zippel, Schneider (in the text, Schuhmacher); and Auguste, seine Frau. The Eduard Bloch edition of the play is apparently an adaptation of an older play of the same title (also unattributed) that was performed on German-language stages in Europe in the 1830s and 1840s. The scholar W. E. Yates has attributed authorship of the original play to Karl Schikaneder. Four of the role books are labeled as the property of Theodor Bloch, who was active in German-language theater in Philadelphia from at least the early 1870s until the mid 1890s, first as an actor and later as a prompter, and who ran a theater lending library. The remaining 2 role books, for Lord and for John, are of a different provenance from the others, and only those books bear actors' names on the covers (Kratz and Mayer). The published copy has been bound into a homemade cover and bears a label on the front that is a clipping of the advertisement for Bloch's theater library that he regularly ran in Philadelphia theater newspapers from around 1880 until the mid 1890s (see theater newspapers, drawer 35). The book itself might date from earlier; an edition of the play was issued in 1870, as no. 198 in the series Eduard Bloch's Dilettanten-Bühne. (The collection's holdings of theater newspapers and playbills contain no reference to this play.)

OCLC:

155866166