Promptbook for a production of The merchant of Venice, marked for the part of Gratiano.
1848
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Title
Promptbook for a production of The merchant of Venice, marked for the part of Gratiano.
Created/published
New York (122 Nassau Street) : Samuel French, publisher, [approximately 1848]
Description
63 p. ; 19 cm
Associated name
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. author.
Note
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Includes
Container of (work): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice.
Genre/form
Prompt books.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
PROMPT Merch. 58
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Ann Jennalie Cook Acquisitions Fund. Purchase made possible by The Karen Gundersheimer Acquisitions Endowment. Dealer's description: "The promptbook is a Samuel French edition circa 1848, lacking covers, and marked for the part of Gratiano. It contains entrances, exits, stage positions, and notes on stage business. Sixty four pages; dimensions seven and a half by four and a half inches. George Holland (1791-1870) was intimately involved with the nineteenth-century American stage. He went on the stage in his native England 1817 and acted steadily for fifty three years. In 1827, at the invitation of Junius Brutus Booth, he immigrated to America and acted at the Bowery Theatre in New York and in cities large and small across the country. He was a leading member of the company at Wallack's Theatre during the 1850s and 60s and Augustin Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York. He died in December 1879 at age seventy nine, and his funeral became a rallying point for the theatrical profession after the Church of the Atonement refused to host his funeral services. Joseph Jefferson and Mark Twain were among those who protested the slight, and his funeral was held at the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration on East Twenty Ninth Street." Ordered from Michael Morrison, D 9028, 2016-11-03, Email quote.
Folger accession
270275