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Description: | A collection of playscripts, promptbooks, pantomime libretti, play typescripts and play manuscripts originally assembled by the Victorian comedian Arthur Williams (1844-1915). Some contain cast-lists for additional performances. This collection was acquired and added to by the actor Frank Pettingell (1891-1966).
The collection covers popular theatre from the 18th century to the early twentieth century and is particularly strong in the areas of melodrama, tragedy, farce and burlesque. This collection includes a large number of manuscripts (many holograph) from playwrights such as Samuel Atkyns, Colin Hazlewood, F.Marchant, E.Newbound, George Dibdin Pitt, W.Seaman, C.A.Somerset, and Charles Henry Stephenson.
400 of the manuscripts were used for productions at the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton.
Integrated into the collection after its acquisition was a collection of around 600 playtexts used by the Victorian actor Marcus Elmore. | Format: | Playbills Libretti Playtexts (typescripts) Playtexts (parts & acting copies) Playtexts (printed) Playtexts (manuscripts) | Subjects: | English; Farces; Tragedy; Burlesques; Pantomimes Popular drama; Victorian drama Melodrama | Temporal: | 1750-1910 19th century 20th century 18th century | Source: | Backstage | Address: | University of Kent, Canterbury,
CT2 7NU | Telephone: | 01227 827609 | Creator: | Pitt, George Dibdin, 1799-1855 | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Language: | en | Format: | Playbills Libretti Playtexts (typescripts) Playtexts (parts & acting copies) Playtexts (printed) Playtexts (manuscripts) | Go to resource |
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