Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh. Amateur performance by the gentlemen from London ... July 17, 1848 ... Stage-manager, Mr. Charles Dickens. [A playbill for the performance by Dickens and his company of The merry wives of Windsor; Love, law and physic; and Two o'clock in the morning. With a criticism from the Caledonian Mercury, 20 July 1848.].
1848
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Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh. Amateur performance by the gentlemen from London ... July 17, 1848 ... Stage-manager, Mr. Charles Dickens. [A playbill for the performance by Dickens and his company of The merry wives of Windsor; Love, law and physic; and Two o'clock in the morning. With a criticism from the Caledonian Mercury, 20 July 1848.].
Created/published
Edinburgh, [1848]
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1 volume ; s.sh
Associated name
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author.
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FAST ACC 271908 (flat)
Folger-specific note
Frame removed and housed separately. From dealer's description: "EDINBURGH. Theatre-Royal. Playbill. Amateur Performance By the Gentlemen from London, connected with literature and art, in aid of the Funds for the Endowment of a perpetual curatorship of Shakespeare’s House, to be always held by some one distinguished in Literature, and more especially in Dramatic Literature. ... On Monday evening, July 17, 1848, will be presented Shakespeare’s comedy of The Merry Wives of Windsor … to be followed by Mr Kenney’s Farce, in one act, of Love, Law, and Physic. ... To conclude with a comic scene, from the French, called Two O’Clock in the Morning. ... Edinburgh: James Brydone, printer. Single sheet folio playbill; a little browned, some light folds. Approx. 22 x 42cm. Framed & glazed. Originally rehearsed by Dickens and his friends for amateur performances in aid of Leigh Hunt, but postponed until May 1848, after which it was repurposed as a fundraising vehicle for Shakespeare’s House. It was intended to award the curatorship to James Sheridan Knowles, who Dickens had learned was financially straitened, but this would eventually prove unnecessary as Sheridan was awarded a substantial annual endowment at the behest of Benjamin Disraeli. In The Merry Wives of Windsor Dickens played Shallow, a country justice, while the role of Falstaff went to Mark Lemon. Among the other actors listed are John Leech, John Forster (given as ‘Foster’), Marcus Stone, G.H. Lewes, Augustus & Frederick Dickens, George Cruikshank, Augustus Egg & Mary Cowden Clarke. In the second piece Dickens played Captain Danvers, and in the third the part of Mr Snobbington. He is also credited as ‘Stage-Manager’." Ordered from Jarndyce, D9354, 2019-10-07, Cat CCXXXIX, The Dickens Catalogue, Autumn 2019, item 478. Purchase made possible by The Ann Jennalie Cook Acquisitions Fund.
Folger accession
271908