Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, September 23, 1869. Change of time. Fourth Night Of the Engagement of Mr. Edwin Booth, Who will appear as Shylock, in Shakspere's Merchant of Venice. Visitors at the Theatre are requested to remain seated till the close of the Play, as the noise occasioned by the impatient few, mars the pleasure of the more intellectual portion of the audience, that wish to witness the completion of the performance. Change of time, Thursday Evening, Sept. 23d, 1869, The Performance will commence at 1/4 to 8 o'clock, with Overture-"Fidelio," Beethoven, After which Shakspere's Popular Play of the Merchant of Venice. Shylock, Edwin Booth ... : To conclude with Buckstone's Laughable Comedietta of the Happiest Day of My Life, Mr. Gillman, Owen Fawcett ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Contributor:

Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893, actor.

Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Print Collection 8 ; v. 11 no. 35.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice.

Shakespeare, William.

Buckstone, John Baldwin, 1802-1879. Happiest day of my life.

Buckstone, John Baldwin.

Playbills--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Specimens.

Playbills.

Theaters--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Theaters.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Specimens.

Broadsides.

Playbills.

Castlists.

Penn Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930 (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy)

Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy)

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 22.8 x 14 cm

Other Title:

Merchant of Venice

Happiest day of my life

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : [Publisher not identified], 1869.

Notes:

Printed area measures 21.5 x 12.8 cm.

Performance date: September 23, 1869.

Local Notes:

Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 35 in a collection of playbills bound together.

Print Collection 8 copy has Library of the University of Pennsylvania bookplate which reads "The Horace Howard Furness Memorial donated by Horace Howard Furness, Jr. and Louise Brooks Winsor Furness."

OCLC:

950969707