Devil upon two sticks. and Diable boiteux. English
Description:
BEIR Hfd22 288: Armorial bookplate: John Corbet, Esqr., Index in each volume., Title in double rule box; tail-pieces., and Written by Alain René Le Sage.
Gretry, Andre Ernest Modeste, 1741-1813 La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695 Sedaine, 1719-1797
Published / Created:
1773
Call Number:
1998 237 2
Image Count:
40
Alternative Title:
[Magnifique. Libretto]
Description:
Bound with three other titles; Bound as no. 4 in a volume of 4 titles bound together; in volume 2 of 9 volumes of 18th century French plays. and Without the music.
Publisher:
De l’imprimerie de Pierre-Robert-Christophe Ballard ...
Theobald, Mr. (Lewis), 1688-1744 Warburton, William, 1698-1779
Published / Created:
1726
Call Number:
Osborn pc75
Image Count:
25
Description:
Caption and running title: The examination and correction of the tragedy of Hamlet., Chiefly a discussion of Hamlet; cites parallel passages from other plays of Shakespeare., Imperfect: upper corners chewed and trimmed; part of p. 194 pasted over with clippings., and Manuscript annotations by W. Warburton, bp. of Gloucester.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a promptbook of Macbeth, written in an interleaved copy of a printed edition of the play. The handwritten notes provide stage directions; scene descriptions; and sound and lighting directions; as well as directions for unnamed characters. The notes also provide explanations for dramatic choices, such as the comment concerning Banquo's murderers, "These are disbanded officers & must therefore be represented as gentlemen not common cutthroats." Occasionally the writer has drawn diagrams of actors' positions or images of scenery; and at the end of the volume, he provides several detailed directions for combat sequences, including one for the final fight between Macbeth and Macduff, involving shoulder blows, leg blows, head blows, groans, and lunges.
Description:
Binding: machine-grain morocco. Pasted on front cover: a printed ticket which reads "Mr. Chas. Pitt Theatre Royal Sheffield. Machbeth." and On flyleaf: engraving of a scene from Macbeth.
Subject (Name):
Macbeth,--King of Scotland, 11th cent.--Drama, Pitt, Charles Dibdin, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.--Macbeth, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Dramatic production--History, and Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Stage history--Sources
Subject (Topic):
English drama--17th century, Promptbooks, Stage fighting, Theater--Production and direction--United States, and Theater--United States--19th century
