Details

Digitiser

• Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Summary note

Description: Prompt book of a 5-Act version marked by H.B. Phillips for Hackett at the Astor Place Opera House in 1848. Also dated 1861 and 1862. Also contains a playbill for Leland Opera House [Albany, N.Y.] (Mrs. J. H. Hackett as Medea), press notices of Mrs. J. H. Hackett and a manuscript prop letter with note at top: "This is the paper I held in my hand when I made my appearance in Lady Macbeth March 20th 1875" (Mrs. J. H. Hackett).

Notes

• Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Folger Shakespeare Library's online catalogue and 'The Shakespeare Prompt books, A Descriptive Catalogue' by Charles H. Shattuck.
• AMDigital Reference: MW 20.

Original version

Reproduction of: The Merry Wives of Windsor c. 1848-1875.

Location of originals

Folger Shakespeare Library

Copyright note

Folger Shakespeare Library

Source of description

Description based on online resource (viewed on February 2, 2017).

Other title(s)

Shakespeare in performance : prompt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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