Shelfmark
Krr.3.20(04)
Author
Title
Shylock or, The merchant of Venice preserved : an entirely new reading of Shakespeare, from an edition hitherto undiscoved [sic] by modern authorities, and which it is hoped may be received as the stray leaves of a Jerusalem hearty-joke / by Francis Talfourd, author of "Macbeth, slightly removed, ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Thomas Hailes Lacy, Wellington Street, Strand,, [1853?].
Physical description
30 p. ; 17 cm.
Note
Publication date suggested by first performance of the play in 1853; see ODNB s.v. 'Talfourd, Francis'; bookseller active in Wellington Street until 1857; see ODNB s.v. "Lacy, Thomas Hailes".
Note
Title-page and preliminaries included in pagination.
Note
Description of the cast of characters, stage business, and scene divisions on title-page verso; note on following page: "Some portions of this Extravaganza are omitted in representation."
Note
Includes titles of airs (popular and borrowed) to be sung.
Note
Includes directions for the disposition of characters at curtain close (p. 30).
With note
Bound with 15 other plays, shelfmarks Krr.3.20(01) - (03), (05) - (16).
Provenance
Ms. inscription on first free endpaper recto (of sammelband): "F. C. Burnand / lent to the A.D.C. [i.e. Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club?]".
Binding
Sammelband. 19th-century quarter straight-grain leather with green marbled paper; pasteboard. Spine flat, divided by horizontal gilt single fillets into 6 compartments, of which the second (from head of spine) has gilt lettering "Plays". Endpapers undecorated; textblock sprinkled red. Board edges worn, exposing pasteboard.
Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564 - 1616 Merchant of Venice.
Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564 - 1616 Parodies, imitations, etc.
Subject
Musicals Librettos.
Genre/Form
Burlesques.
Added entry--name
Lacy, Thomas Hailes, 1809 - 1873 publisher.
Added entry--name
Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836 - 1917 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50537