New Theatre. Mr. Booth's Benefit And Last Appearance here. Mrs. Duff's first appearance these 6 years. Monday Evening, April 7, 1823, Will be presented the celebrated Tragedy of The Distrest Mother. Translated from the Andromaque of Racine, by Ambrose Philips. Orestes, Mr. Booth. ... : After which the favourite Farce of the Mayor of Garrat; Or, the Henpeck'd Cockney. Jerry Sneak, (in which he will introduce a Comic Song,) Mr. Booth. ...
- Publication:
- [Philadelphia] : [Publisher not identified], [1823]
- Format/Description:
- Book
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 30.9 x 19.1 cm - Series:
- Print Collection 8 ; box 18 no. 83.
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3t43jc8c - Status/Location:
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- Other Title:
- Distrest Mother
Mayor of Garrat, or, the Henpeck'd Cockney
Mayor of Garrat
Henpeck'd Cockney - Subjects:
- Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Philips, Ambrose, 1674-1749. Distrest mother.
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777. Mayor of Garratt.
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 27.4 x 15.3 cm.
Performance date: April 7, 1823.
The Distrest Mother is a translation, with alterations, of Jean Racine's Andromaque. - Local notes:
- Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 83 in a collection of playbills housed together.
- Penn Chronology:
- 1823
- Contributor:
- Booth, Junius Brutus, 1796-1852, actor.
Duff, Mary Ann, 1795-1857, actor.
Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania) - OCLC:
- 951748557