Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, October 8, 1869. Benefit of Mr. Edwin Booth, Who will appear as Othello! In Shakspere's Tragedy of that name. 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. Friday Evening, October 8th, 1869, The Performance will commence at 1/4 to 8 o'clock, with Overture-"Othello," Rossini, After which will be presented Shakspere's Tragedy, in five acts, of Othello, The Moor of Venice, Othello, Edwin Booth ...
- Publication:
- Philadelphia : [Publisher not identified], 1869.
- Format/Description:
- Book
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 22.8 x 14 cm - Series:
- Print Collection 8 ; v. 11 no. 50.
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p38k7573n - Status/Location:
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- Other Title:
- Othello, the Moor of Venice
Othello
Moor of Venice - Subjects:
- Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.
Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens.
Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Theaters.
Playbills.
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. - Form/Genre:
- Specimens.
Broadsides.
Playbills.
Castlists. - Place of Publication:
- United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
- Notes:
- Printed area measures 21.5 x 12.8 cm.
Performance date: October 8, 1869. - Local notes:
- Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 50 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." - Penn Provenance:
- Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930 (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy)
Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy) - Penn Chronology:
- 1869
- Contributor:
- Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893, actor.
Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania) - OCLC:
- 951215091