Research Catalog

Title

Hamlet programs, 1837-1937.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
• Carcano, Giulio, 1812-1884.
• Morand, Eugène, 1855?-1930.
• Schwob, Marcel, 1867-1905.
• Kroneberg, A. (Andreĭ), -1855.
• Salvini, Tommaso, 1829-1915
• Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923
• Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
• Coghlan, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1848-1899.
• Barrett, Lawrence, 1838-1891
• Whitton, Ernest C.
• Morton, George

Description

1 bound volume of programs : illustrations, some in color; 24 cm

Donor/Sponsor

In honor of George Freedley

Subjects

• Playbills
• Postcards
• Theater programs
• Moskovskiĭ khudozhestvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr

Genre/Form

• Theater programs.
• Playbills.
• Postcards.

Note

• Programs (1837 - 1937) for Hamlet by William Shakespeare, primarily in England and the United States. Over one hundred playbills and programs documenting performances by a range of actors from the mid-19th to the early 20th Century including E. L. Davenport, Henry Irving, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, and Johnston Forbes-Robertson. Also included are performances by Tommaso Salvini in an Italian translation that is uncredited but probably by Giulio Carcano (N.Y.); Sarah Bernhardt in the French translation by Eugène Morand and Marcel Schwob (London); H.N. Sarmatow and L.M. Dalmatowa in an uncredited Russian translation at the Terrace Garden Theatre (N.Y.), and the Moscow Art Theatre in the Russian translation by A. Kroneberg (Moscow).
• The Irish novelist Bram Stoker is credited as the manager of the Royal Lyceum Theatre for Henry Irving's performances there.
• Item 10, included here by error, is a mock playbill related to Charles Coghlan's The Royal Box, a comedy about James Clarence, a flamboyant actor based on Edmund Kean who gives a benefit performance for Mr. "Tight-Wire" Widgetts which includes a scene from Hamlet. Walker Whiteside, who starred in this play, is represented in this volume with programs from his actual performances of Hamlet.
• Bound with Item 11, a program for an unspecified performance by Lawrence Barrett with George Morton as Laertes, is a handwritten postcard from Mr. Morton to the drama critic of the New York Clipper, Ernest C. Whitton, attempting to date and place the production.
• A number of items in this volume belong to the Stead Collection.
• Compiled and bound by The New York Public Library.

Call Number

MWEZ+ n.c. 6060

OCLC

981910409

Title

Hamlet programs, 1837-1937.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Some items within are fragile or have come loose from the library binding. Please handle with deliberate care.

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Added Author

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Carcano, Giulio, 1812-1884.

Morand, Eugène, 1855?-1930.

Schwob, Marcel, 1867-1905.

Kroneberg, A. (Andreĭ), -1855.

Salvini, Tommaso, 1829-1915, actor.

Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923, actor.

Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912, producer.

Coghlan, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1848-1899. Royal box.

Barrett, Lawrence, 1838-1891, actor.

Whitton, Ernest C., reporter, correspondent.

Morton, George, actor, correspondent.

Research Call Number

MWEZ+ n.c. 6060