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Lot 1068

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.
English prompt book for Richard III, annotated in ink throughout by James Fenton, 1824. London: J. Barker, Dramatic Repository, n. d. 8vo. 60 pp. Original brown wrappers hand-lettered by Mr. Fenton.

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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.

English prompt book for Richard III, annotated in ink throughout by James Fenton, 1824. London: J. Barker, Dramatic Repository, n. d. 8vo. 60 pp. Original brown wrappers hand-lettered by Mr. Fenton. Worn and soiled.
Provenance: Welsh actor and playwright Emlyn Williams.
WITH: Four London flyers for Sarah Siddons as "Lady MacBeth" in Macbeth, New Theatre Royal Covent-Garden, November 15, 1810; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean in The Loving Woman, Theatre Royal, Hay-Market, December 18, 1819 (framed); Junius Brutus Booth Sr. in Pizarro, Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane, December 21, 1820; and The School for Scandal, New Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, November 1, 1822.
Provenance: Loving Woman sheet formerly owned by actress Dorothy Stickney.

An unusual prompt book of Richard III "as performed at the Theatres-Royal" with rare theater broadsides featuring several of the greatest actors of their day. The prompt book was given to Mr. Williams when he appeared in Richard III at the Vic in 1937.

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