Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, October 29, 1869. Last Performance But One and Benefit of Mr. Edwin Booth, Who will appear as Hamlet. 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, October 29th, 1869, The performance will commence at 1/4 to 8 o'clock, with Overture-Hamlet, Kaliwoda, After which will be presented Shakspere's Tragedy, in Five Acts, of Hamlet, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Mr Edwin Booth ..

Alternate Title:

Hamlet

Contributor:

Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893 (actor)

Name:

Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1869

Language:

English

Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930 (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy); Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy)

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Specimens; Broadsides; Playbills; Castlists

Physical Description:

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

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Printed area measures 21.5 x 12.8 cm.; Performance date: October 29, 1869.; Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 71 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."

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 v. 11 no. 71

Collection:

Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)