Philadelphia Theatre. The Doors open at a quarter before 6, and the Curtain rises at a quarter before 7 o'clock, precisely. Mr. Cooper's Last Night But Three. Monday Evening, March 1, 1824, Will be presented a Comedy, called Rule a Wife and have a Wife. Leon, Mr. Cooper. ... : After which, a Melo-Drama, in 3 acts, called Tekeli, Or, The Siege of Montgatz. Written by Theodore Edward Hook, Esq. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, with unbounded applause. Scene First Represents A Forest--Time, Night. On the right hand, a large Oak--Tekeli is discovered lying on a Branch--his Friend Wolf sleeping on bank close to him--near the centre another tree with saplings, which the peasants hew to form a litter for Tekeli--The whole is closed by a Distant View of Rocks, Wood and Water. Count Tekeli, Mr. Duff. ..

Alternate Title:

Rule a Wife and have a Wife; Tekeli, or, The Siege of Montgatz; Tekeli; Siege of Montgatz

Contributor:

Cooper, Thomas Abthorpe, 1776-1849 (actor); Duff, John R., 1787-1831 (actor)

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1824

Language:

English

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Fletcher, John, 1579-1625. Rule a wife and have a wife; Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616. Rule a wife and have a wife; Hook, Theodore Edward, 1788-1841. Tekeli; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Broadsides; Playbills; Castlists; books

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 29.6 x 19.2 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 27.5 x 15.4 cm.; Performance date: March 1, 1824.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 21A no. 127 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. 127

Collection:

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