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| Title
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Dramatic Annals: Critiques on Plays and Performances. Vol. 2. 1786-1806. Collected by John Nixon
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| Author
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Nixon, John Reynolds, Frederic Lee, Harriet Cobb, James Starke, Marianna Ireland, William Holcroft, Thomas Elliston, Robert William Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo O'Keeffe, John Dibdin, Thomas John Cumberland, Richard
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| Date
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1786-1806
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| Document Type
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Scrapbook
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| Library/Archive
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The Garrick Club Library
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| Collection Name
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Illustrated chronicle
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| Language
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English
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| Document Description
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This collection includes illustrations of actors both in character and in ordinary dress, theatre interiors and exteriors including rare and original drawings by Nixon himself. The volume also contains correspondence, newspaper clippings featuring reviews, playbills, cast lists. Features reviews, and ticket designs for Sir Watkin Williams' private theatre at Wynnstay. Includes articles on the closing of the Drury Lane Theatre in 1791.
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| Theme
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Celebrity Culture & Fashion Business & Finance Modes of Performance: Costume, Scenography & Spectacle
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| Theatre
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Covent Garden Theatre Theatre Royal Drury Lane Goodman's Fields Theatre Royal Richmond The Little Theatre (or Theatre Royal), Haymarket Wynnstay Theatre Mrs Crespigny's Private Theatre Brandenburgh House Theatre Bath New Theatre
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| Theatre Manager
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Palmer, John Kelly, Michael Williams, Watkins Colman the Younger, George Colman the Elder, George Kemble, John Philip Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
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| Actor
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King, Thomas Smith, William Parsons, Mr Baddeley, Robert Pope, Jane Henderson, John Palmer, John Booth, Joseph Wilkinson Mountain, Rosemond Brown, Mrs Inchbald, Elizabeth Crouch, Anna Maria Delpini Macklin, Charles Ryder, Mr Bannister, John Powell, William Incledon, Charles Aikin, Mr Siddons, Sarah Ryder, Thomas Smith, William Mellon, Harriet King, Thomas Craven, K Gibbs, Mrs Liston, John Rae, Mr
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| Composer
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Hook, James Hook, James (the Younger)
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| Compiler (of scrapbooks)
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Nixon, John
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| (Other) People
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Thespis, Philo
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| Keywords
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actor career character costume scene history music friendship royalty Shakespeare newspaper epilogue prologue Theatrical Intelligence advertisement song opera fable forgery children patron The Monthly Mirror obituary
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| Additional Information
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There were many drawings by John Nixon included in this scrapbook.
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| Document linked to
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False Alarms, or My Cousin
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| Copyright
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The Garrick Club Library
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