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Title
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Dramatic Annals: Critiques on Plays and Performances. Vol 1. 1741-1785. Collected by John Nixon
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Author
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Bickerstaffe, Isaac de Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron
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Date
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1741-1785
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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 includes illustrations of actors both in character and in ordinary dress. There is a chart of Dramatic History, Nixon's box order from Garrick for Drury Lane, theatre correspondence, newspaper clippings featuring reviews. There are details of Mrs Garrick's funeral, as well as illustrations of prominent figures of the time.
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Theme
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Celebrity Culture & Fashion Business & Finance Modes of Performance: Costume, Scenography & Spectacle Women in Eighteenth Century Drama
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Theatre
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Theatre Royal Drury Lane Covent Garden Theatre Goodman's Fields Richmond Theatre The Little Theatre (or Theatre Royal), Haymarket Royalty Theatre
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Theatre Manager
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Garrick, David
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Actor
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Barry, Elizabeth Fenton, Lavinia Walker, Thomas Pinkethman, William Cibber, Colley Garrick, David Cibber, Susannah Pritchard, Mrs Clive, Catherine Woodward, Henry Foote, Samuel King, Thomas Reddish, Samuel Quick, John Barry, Spranger Mattocks, Mrs Miss Younge Dibdin, Charles Abington, Frances Lewis, Charles Lee Sheridan, Thomas Cowley, Hannah Mr Aickin Siddons, Sarah Miss Pope Farreri, Eliza Wilkinson, Tate Jordan, Mrs Crouch, Mrs
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Compiler (of scrapbooks)
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Nixon, John
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(Other) People
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Garrick, Eva Marie (née Veigel) Stevens, George Walpole, Lady Elizabeth "Nancy"
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Keywords
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actor career character costume scene history music friendship royalty Shakespeare newspaper epilogue prologue The British Chronicle The London Chronicle review theatre politics Lloyd's Evening Post The English Theatre death Harlequin marriage performance Christmas funeral Morning Post Theatrical Intelligence advertisement song opera fable comedian humour theatre opening first performance
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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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Maid of Honour
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Copyright
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The Garrick Club Library
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