Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, October 25, 1869. Last Week 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. Monday Evening, Oct. 25th, 1869, The performance will commence at 1/4 to 8 o'clock, with Overture-"Egmont," Beethoven, After which will be presented Kotzebue's Pathetic Play, 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 ..

Alternate Title:

Stranger, or, Misanthropy & repentance; Stranger; Misanthropy & repentance; Taming of the shrew

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.); Kotzebue, August von, 1761-1819. Menschenhass und Reue. English; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Taming of the shrew; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Specimens; Broadsides; Playbills; Castlists; books

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 25, 1869.; Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 67 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. 67

Collection:

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