Theatre Royal... Brilliant Reception and triumphant Success of Mr. James Bennett whose Success in the United States of America was greater than any other English Tragedian, for positively six Nights... On Tuesday Evening, Oct. 4, 1859 will be presented Shakspear's Tragedy of Richard the Third... To conclude with the celebrated operatic Drama, in two Acts, entitled the Muleteer of Toledo... On Monday, Oct. 10, will be produced a new spectacular Drama with entire new Scenery by the eminent Artist Mr. Charles Fox...
1859
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Theatre Royal... Brilliant Reception and triumphant Success of Mr. James Bennett whose Success in the United States of America was greater than any other English Tragedian, for positively six Nights... On Tuesday Evening, Oct. 4, 1859 will be presented Shakspear's Tragedy of Richard the Third... To conclude with the celebrated operatic Drama, in two Acts, entitled the Muleteer of Toledo... On Monday, Oct. 10, will be produced a new spectacular Drama with entire new Scenery by the eminent Artist Mr. Charles Fox...
Created/published
Hull : W. H. Wood, General Printer and Lithographer, 1859.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 49.3 x 25 cm
Corporate author
Theatre Royal, Hull.
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Genre/form
Playbills.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
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FAST ACC 271225 (flat)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: Lightly browned. A production of Richard IIIat the Theatre Royal in Hull, just days before it was destroyed by a fire: ‘It appears that about seven o’clock ... the private room of Mr. Pritchard (the lessee), situated on the east side of the stage, was observed in flames. He immediately raised an alarm ... [however] the roof fell, and the building was completely gutted, leaving little more than the walls standing’ (The Musical World, 15 Oct. 1859). The ‘New Spectacular Drama’ advertised on the present playbill did not, therefore, ever materialize, and was ‘a serious loss both to the lessee and the members of the company’ (ibid.). The theatre was insured to the amount of £8000 but was not rebuilt until 1865, after which it burned again in 1869. James Bennett was known by his contemporaries as a provincial actor with promise, but lacking clout: ‘He is not young, he has not a commanding figure or facile features; but, nevertheless, did he really possess the true Promethean heat, he might, as Garrick and Henderson, and others have done, conquer the deficiencies of nature’ (The Critic, 26 March 1859). Ordered from Simon Beattie, D 9328, 2019-07-24, Shakespeare and the Stage July 2019, item 24.4.