[Guild of Literature & Art.] [Not So Bad As We Seem.] Playbill. On Thursday evening, May 13th, 1852, the amateur company of The Guild of Literature and Art,. will have the honor of performing, for the seventeenth time, a new comedy, in five acts, by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton,. called Not So Bad As We Seem: or, Many Sides to a Character. . The performance to conclude with (for the sixteenth time) an original farce, in one act, by Mr. Charles Dickens and Mr. Mark Lemon, entitled Mr. Nightingale's Diary. . The whole produced under the direction of Mr. Charles Dickens.

(DICKENS, Charles) BIRMINGHAM. Town Hall.

Verlag: W.S. Johnson, "Nassau Steam Press". 1852, 1852

Beschreibung

Single sheet folio playbill, printed in red & black; sl. torn along horizontal fold. Numbered '1500' in ms. in top left corner, possibly the print-run? 24.5 x 50cm. This represents the final time Lytton's play was presented in its five-act format; for the five performances given in August (the first being at Nottingham on the 23rd), the play was condensed by Dickens into three acts, and an additional one-act farce called Two O'Clock in the Morning was added to the bill. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 90561

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Titel: [Guild of Literature & Art.] [Not So Bad As ...

Verlag: W.S. Johnson, "Nassau Steam Press". 1852

Erscheinungsdatum: 1852