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Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, October 15, 1869. Twenty-third Night of Mr. Edwin Booth, Who will appear in Two Great Plays: The Stranger: The Stranger, Edwin Booth and the Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio, Edwin Booth. Visitors 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. Friday Evening, Oct. 15th, 1869, The Performance will commence at 1/4 to 8 o'clock, with Overture-"Shaksperean," Bishop, After which will be presented Kotzebue's Pathetic Play, in Five Acts, of the Stranger, or, Misanthropy & Repentance. The Stranger, Edwin Booth ... : To conclude with Shakspere's Comedy, in 3 Acts, The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio, Edwin Booth ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection Print Collection 8 v. 11 no. 57
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Series:
- Print Collection 8 ; v. 11 no. 57.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Kotzebue, Augustus von, 1761-1819. Stranger.
- Kotzebue, Augustus von.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Taming of the shrew.
- Shakespeare, William.
- 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:
- Stranger, or, Misanthropy & repentance
- Stranger
- Misanthropy & repentance
- Taming of the shrew
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : [Publisher not identified], 1869.
- Notes:
- Printed area measures 21.5 x 12.8 cm.
- Performance date: October 15, 1869.
- Local Notes:
- Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 57 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:
- 951216749
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