Brilliant Success... On Wednesday Evening, March 17, 1841, will be presented Shakspere's Play of the Midsummer Night's Dream... To conclude with the laughable Farce, called, Raising the Wind...
1841
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Title
Brilliant Success... On Wednesday Evening, March 17, 1841, will be presented Shakspere's Play of the Midsummer Night's Dream... To conclude with the laughable Farce, called, Raising the Wind...
Created/published
Bristol : Somerton, Printer, Mercury-Office, 1841.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 37.3 x 26 cm
Corporate author
Theatre Royal, Bristol.
Note
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Genre/form
Playbills.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 271219 (flat)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: A little light browning and wear to edges, one long pen mark to lower half of playbill, not affecting text. A production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at theTheatre Royal in Bristol while it was under the management of Sarah Macready. Macready, née Desmond (1790–1853), began her career as a touring provincial actress until 1819, when she established herself as Bristol’s leading actress with her interpretation of Lady Macbeth (Oxford DNB). She married actor and theatre manager William Macready and, upon his death in 1829, was bequeathed with all his business interests. She became lessee and manager of Bristol’s Theatre Royal in 1834, and made it a highly profitable venture: ‘She came to Bristol management with scant capital but raised sufficient funds to oversee renovations and building projects at the theatre, and she returned profits in many of her Bristol seasons, offering the proprietors their first regular, significant returns on their investment for many years. These business practices continued to serve her well in Cardiff and Bath. She renovated Cardiff’s theatre, improving conditions for both actors and audiences. Her first Bath season in September 1845 saw the previously fashionable, but now struggling, venue benefit from its association with the more successful Bristol theatre. For the next decade she rode the challenging provincial theatrical market by offering celebrities and novelties that audiences wanted to see’ (ibid.). Ordered from Simon Beattie, D 9328, 2019-07-24, Shakespeare and the Stage July 2019, item 24.3.