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Boston Theatre - Theater Playbill: Boston Theatre, Thomas Barry, Lessee and Manager. Mr. Forrest, the American Tragedian in His Great Shakespearean Character of King Lear... Friday Evening, Nov. 9, 1855...

Title: Theater Playbill: Boston Theatre, Thomas Barry, Lessee and Manager. Mr. Forrest, the American Tragedian in His Great Shakespearean Character of King Lear... Friday Evening, Nov. 9, 1855...
Description: Boston, 1855. Unbound. Broadside, 1 p. Good condition The Boston Theatre, Washington Street was first built in 1854 and operated as a theater until 1925. Edwin Forrest (1806-1872) was a prominent nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor. His feud with the British actor William Macready was the cause of the deadly Astor Place Riot of 1849.

Keywords: Theater Playbills; Boston Theaters; Edwin Forrest

Price: US$ 52.00 Seller: Brookline Village Books
- Book number: 46259

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