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Published / Created:
[1813]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B B619 1813
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Playbill advertising a performance at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham which principally takes the form of an apology announcing that the lead of the evening's entertainment, Italian opera singer Angelica Catalani (1780-1849), is unable to attend due to ill health. The soprano's appearance had been much publicised by the local press, hence the need to justify her absence by publishing a communication by the attending doctor
Alternative Title:
Mr. Bartley most respectfully begs leave to inform the public ...
Description:
Caption title. and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
[J]onathan Knott, printer, Birmingham
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Theatre Royal (Birmingham, England), Catalani, Angelica, 1780-1849., Centlivre, Susanna, 1667?-1723., and Birch, Samuel, 1757-1841.
Subject (Topic):
Theater and History
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Birmingham. Mr. Bartley most respectfully begs leave to inform the public, that he received on Wednesday morning an intimation from Mr. Elliston, that Madame Catalani laboured under an indisposition of so serious a nature, that it precluded her from performing here on Friday evening ... : This present Friday, October 29, 1813, will be presented the favourite comedy of A bold stroke for a wife ... to conclude with the favourite farce of The adopted child ...
Published / Created:
[ca. 1820]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 22. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
A mock playbill concerning the trial of Queen Caroline., Printed in letterpress., "Places to be taken at the Great House in Pall Mall or at the theatre. No money returned. Vivant rex et regina.", and Mounted on page 22 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Trials, litigation, etc
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Cotton Garden. This present Monday, and till further notice, will be presented (first time) an entire new eccentric, tragic, comic, farcical, burlesque, melo-drama, with new music, dresses, and appropriate scenery, to be called The consipiracy, or, Lie upon lie! : in which Mr. Muddlepool will repeat an essay on morality of enormous length ... After which two gentlemen in the profession of the law are to exert all their powers in lying, backed by several Italians of celebrity. Some warriors of distinction will stand in battle array against a single female, who nobody wants to get rid of. In the beginning of the piece there will appear an entire new character dressed in green ...
Published / Created:
[1814]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B C838 1814 2/7
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Last night but two of Mr. Kemble's present engagement
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by E. Macleish, 2, Bow-Street, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Farley, Charles, 1771-1859., and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. This present Monday, February 7, 1814, will be acted Shakspeare's play of King Henry the Eighth ... : Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. Kemble ... to which will be added (for the 31st time) the new grand pantomime, called Harlequin & the swans or, The bath of beauty ...
Published / Created:
[1822]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B C838 1822 2/7
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
This present Thursday, February 7, 1822, (4th time) Shakspeare's play of The tempest ...
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837., and Grimaldi, Joe, 1802-1832.
Subject (Topic):
Pantomimes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. This present Thursday, February 7, 1822, (4th time) Shakspeare's play of The tempest. (Altered and adapted by Dryden and Davenant ... Prospero ... by Mr. Young ... Ariel by Miss M. Tree ... : After which will be produced, for the 37th time, a new pantomime, called Harlequin and Mother Bunch; or, The yellow dwarf ... Guinea Pig, (Captain of the Yeomen, afterwards Harlequin’s Lacquey) Mr. I.S. Grimaldi ... Yellow Dwarf, (afterwards Clown,) Mr. Grimaldi ...
Published / Created:
[1814]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B C838 1817 5/30+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
E. Macleish, printer, 2, Bow-Street, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Bishop, Henry R. 1786-1855. (Henry Rowley),, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823., and Kemble, Charles, 1775-1854.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Friday, May 30, 1817, will be acted Shakspeare's play of Cymbeline ... : Leonatus Posthumus by Mr Kemble ... after which for the 9th time a new operatick drama, in two acts called The libertine. Founded on the interesting story of Don Juan in which will be introduced the celebrated musick in Mozart's Don Giovanni ... Don Juan (the libertine) by Mr. C. Kemble ...
Published / Created:
[1814]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B C838 1814 2/9
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., For further information, consult library staff., and Annotation on verso: "A great and overflowing audience from box pit and galleries /2 price at 5 to 9 tragedy over 5 past 10 and all concluded by a /4[?] feast eleven o'clock with Mr Roberts at Piazza Pit Room."
Publisher:
E. Macleish, printer, 2, Bow-Street, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Hoare, Prince, 1755-1834., and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Wednesday, February 9, 1814 will be acted, Shakspeare's tragedy of Julius Caesar ... : Brutus by Mr. Kemble ... to which will be added the farce of The spoil'd child ...
Published / Created:
[1814]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B C838 1814 5/18
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
E. Macleish, printer, 2, Bow-Street, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Pocock, I. 1782-1835. (Isaac),, and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Wednesday, May 18, 1814, will be acted Shakspeare's tragedy of Coriolanus; or, The Roman matron ... : Caius Marcius Coriolanus by Mr. Kemble ... to which will be added a new melo-drama, (interspersed with choruses, &c.) called The miller & his men ...
Published / Created:
[1814]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B C838 1814 5/25
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
E. Macleish, printer, 2, Bow-Street, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855., and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Wednesday, May 25, 1814, will be acted Shakspeare's tragedy of Julius Caesar ... : Brutus by Mr. Kemble ... to which will be added (25th time) a new grand Asiatick spectacle called Sadak & Kalasrade or, The waters of oblivion ...
Published / Created:
1809.
Call Number:
File 767 P69B J55 1809 12/27+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Cure for the heart-ache
Description:
Caption title; the word "heart" in the play title "A cure for the heart ache" is replaced by an image of a heart pierced by arrows., Place of publication has been transposed; the place name follows the printer's name., and A playbill printed on silk.
Publisher:
Stead, Army Printer
Subject (Name):
Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838. and Colman, George, 1762-1836.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Jersey. By desire of Lt. Col. Blommart, and officers of the 62nd Regiment (Springers), on Wednesday, December 27th, 1809, will be performed the comedy of A cure for the [heart] ache ... : End of the play, a comic song by Mr. C. Curtis. To conclude with the farce of We fly by night! or, Long stories ... Places to be had of Mrs. Shatford, at Mrs. Viels ...
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