Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, October 22, 1869. Benefit of Mr. Edwin Booth, Who will appear in Two Great Plays, the Merchant of Venice. Shylock, Edwin Booth, and Don Caesar de Bazan, Don Caesar de Bazan, Edwin Booth. Visitors are requested to remain seated till the close of the Play, as the noise occasioned by the impatient few, mars the pleasure of the more intellectual portion of the audience, that wish to witness the completion of the performance. Friday Evening, October 22d, 1869, The performance at 1/4 to 8 o'clock, with Overture-"L'Roi D'Yvetot," Adam, After which Shakspere's Popular Play, in Four Acts, of the Merchant of Venice, Shylock, Edwin Booth ... : To conclude with the Drama, in Three Acts, of Don Caesar de Bazan, Don Caesar de Bazan, Edwin Booth ..
- Alternate Title
- Merchant of Venice
- Don Caesar de Bazan
- Creator
- Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893 (actor)
- Form
- books
- broadsides (notices)
- playbills
- Castlists
- Date
- 1869
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice
- Dumanoir, M. (Philippe), 1806-1865. Don Caesar de Bazan
- Ennery, Adolphe d', 1811-1899. Don Caesar de Bazan
- 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) ; 22.8 x 14 cm
- Publisher
- [Publisher not identified]
- Related Place
- United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Notes
- Printed area measures 21.5 x 12.8 cm.
- Performance date: October 22, 1869.
- Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 64 in a collection of playbills bound together.
- Print Collection 8 copy has Library of the University of Pennsylvania bookplate which reads "The Horace Howard Furness Memorial donated by Horace Howard Furness, Jr. and Louise Brooks Winsor Furness."
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 v. 11 no. 64
- Provenance
- Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930 (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy)
- Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy)
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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