Philadelphia Theatre. The Doors will be opened at a quarter past 5, and the Curtain rise at precisely a quarter past 6 o'clock, until further notice. For the Benefit of the Fund In Aid of the Greeks. Wednesday Evening, January 7, 1824, Will be presented the celebrated Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark. Hamlet, by Mr. Booth, Who has Volunteered his Services on this occasion. ... : After Which, The Comic Opera Of The Children in the Wood. Sir Rowland, Mr. Wheatly. ..

Alternate Title:

Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Children in the Wood

Contributor:

Booth, Junius Brutus, 1796-1852 (actor)

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1824

Language:

English

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet; Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838. Children in the wood; Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802. Children in the wood; 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); 30 x 18.4 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 26.2 x 15.4 cm.; Performance date: January 7, 1824.; Children in the Wood; libretto by Thomas Morton; music by Samuel Arnold. Cf. Loewenberg. Annals of opera.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 21A no. 121 in a collection of playbills housed together.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 21A no. 121

Collection:

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