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. ..
- Alternate Title
- Distrest Mother
- Mayor of Garrat, or, the Henpeck'd Cockney
- Mayor of Garrat
- Henpeck'd Cockney
- Creator
- Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Booth, Junius Brutus, 1796-1852 (actor)
- Duff, Mary Ann, 1795-1857 (actor)
- Form
- books
- broadsides (notices)
- playbills
- Castlists
- Date
- 1823
- Language
- English
- Subject
- 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
- Geographic Subject
- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Collection
- Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 30.9 x 19.1 cm
- Publisher
- [Publisher not identified]
- Related Place
- 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.
- Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 83 in a collection of playbills housed together.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3t43jc8c
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 18 no. 83
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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