Research Catalog

Title

A midsummer night's dream programs.

Publication

1816-1942.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
• Morlacchi, Giuseppina, 1836-1886
• Greet, Ben, Sir, 1857-1936
• Benson, Frank R. (Frank Robert), 1858-1939
• Daly, Augustin, 1838-1899
• Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, Sir, 1852-1917
• Reinhardt, Max, 1873-1943
• McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1865-1940
• Low, Seth, 1850-1916
• Sittig, Lena Wilson, 1855-
• Van Volkenburg, Ellen
• Comden, Betty
• Kauffmann, Stanley, 1916-2013

Description

3 bound volumes of programs : illustrations; 38 cm or smaller

Summary

More than one hundred sixty programs (1816 - 1942) in three volumes documenting a range of early 19th to mid 20th century productions of A midsummer night's dream by William Shakespeare in England and the United States including tableaux, pageants, and puppet performances as well as outdoor, regional, amateur, college, and university productions.

Donor/Sponsor

In honor of George Freedley

Subjects

• Amateur theater > United States
• Theater, Open-air
• Ben Greet Players
• Theater in der Josefstadt (Vienna, Austria)
• Columbia University
• Marginalia
• Padua Hills Theatre (Claremont, Calif.)
• Playbills
• Theater programs
• Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)
• Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon, England)
• Puppets
• Mayors > New York (State) > New York > Election
• Tableaux
• Deutsches Theater (Berlin, Germany)
• Pageants
• Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901

Genre/Form

• Marginalia.
• Theater programs.
• Playbills.

Note

• Volume 1 (MWEZ + n.c. 7574) documents productions from 1867 to 1907, including performances by Annie Russell; Ada Rehan; Giuseppina Morlacchi and the Morlacchi Ballet Troupe; a Masonic celebration in honor of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (Nottingham, England); the Amaranth and Empire stock acting companies; productions by Ben Greet, F. R. Benson, and Augustin Daly. Item 45, a program for the New Amsterdam Theatre (N.Y.), contains advertising for the 1903 mayoral campaign of George B. McClellan Jr. who ran successfully against then Mayor Seth Low. Item 50, a program for the Montauk Theatre (Brooklyn, N.Y.), contains an "appeal for the destitute children" by the children's author Mrs. Frank Sittig (Lena Wilson Sittig).
• Volume 2 (MWEZ + n.c. 7575) documents productions from 1908 to 1942, including performances by Ben Greet's Woodland Players at Columbia University; productions at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon; an all-girl's pageant at the River Hook School (Nyack, N.Y.); Max Reinhardt's production at the Century Theatre (N.Y.) with performers from the Deutsches Theater of Berlin and the Josefstädter Theater of Vienna; Ellen Van Volkenburg's puppet production; the Federal Theatre Project; the Washington Square Players, featuring Stanley Kauffmann and Betty Comden. The actor Claude Rains is credited as the stage manager for Granville Barker's production and played a small role in a few venues. Item 61, a program for The Mexican Players production of Midsummer Moonlight (Padua Hills Theatre, Claremont, Calif.), is included here in error.
• Volume 3 (MWEZ + n.c. 7576A) documents productions from 1816 to 1940, including several by Ben Greet and Augustin Daly and all-girl's production at Mount Vernon (Iowa) High School. Item 34 is a souvenir program affixed with half-tone photographs of actors in costume for Herbert Beerbohm Tree's 1900 production at Her Majesty's Theatre (London).
• Compiled and bound by The New York Public Library. Many items belong to the Stead, Players, and Robinson Locke Collections. There is marginalia scattered throughout.

Call Number

MWEZ+ n.c. 7574-7576A

OCLC

1041855450

Title

A midsummer night's dream programs.

Publisher

1816-1942.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Many 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. Midsummer night's dream.

Morlacchi, Giuseppina, 1836-1886, dancer.

Greet, Ben, Sir, 1857-1936, director, actor.

Benson, Frank R. (Frank Robert), 1858-1939, director.

Daly, Augustin, 1838-1899, director.

Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, Sir, 1852-1917, director, actor.

Reinhardt, Max, 1873-1943, director.

McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1865-1940, associated name.

Low, Seth, 1850-1916, associated name.

Sittig, Lena Wilson, 1855- associated name.

Van Volkenburg, Ellen, director, puppeteer.

Comden, Betty, actor.

Kauffmann, Stanley, 1916-2013, actor.

Research Call Number

MWEZ+ n.c. 7574-7576A