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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Lyceum Theatre, under the special license of the Lord Chamberlain, granted for the present season, to the joint application of all parties interested. ... forming the company of the late Drury Lane Theatre, will, this present Thursday, November, 23, 1809. Perform the comedy of A bold stroke for a wife ... To which will be added (4th time) a new farce in two acts called Not at home! ...

Accession number
PML 146391.70
Published
[London : s.n., 1809]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Playbill for the 1809 productions of A bold stroke for a wife by Susanna Centlivre and Not at home by Robert Charles Dallas, to be performed by the former Drury Lane Theatre company at the Lyceum Theatre.
Cast list for A bold stroke for a wife: Mr. Melvin (Colonel Feigwell); Mr. Ray (Freeman); Mr. Dowton (Obadiah Prim); Mr. Pennley (Sir Philip Modelove); Mr. Wewitzer (Tradelove); Mr. Mathews (Perriwinkle); Mr. Palmer (Sackbut); Mr. Russell (Simon Pure); Mrs. Sparks (Mrs. Prim); Mrs. Orger (Anne Lovely); Miss Tidswell (Betty); Miss Chatterley (Mask'd Lady). Cast list for Not at home!: Mr. Melvin, Mr. Mathews, Mr. De Camp, Mr. Holland, Mr. Oxberry, Mr. J. Smith, Mrs. Maddocks, Miss Tidswell.
Part of a large collection of prints, drawings, and letters bound into an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Letters and journals of Lord Byron (PML 146390-97); assembled by collector David Langton and formerly in the possession of John Dillon and Gordon Ray.
Description
1 sheet (1 p.) ; 29 cm
Provenance
David Langton; John Dillon; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department