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Fram size : 57x30 cm
Historic London TheatreOpened in 1836 as the Princess's Theatre on Oxford Street, named after the young Princess Victoria.Celebrated in the 1850s under manager Charles Kean for lavish Shakespearean productions.Demolished in 1931
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Original 19th-century playbill for the Princess’s Theatre under the management of Charles Kean, announcing his production of “The Tragedy of King Richard III” (Colley Cibber’s adaptation of Shakespeare). Includes an extensive printed note from Kean explaining his choice of the Cibber text over the original, with references to Garrick, Kemble, and his father Edmund Kean, plus a list of historical costume authorities consulted, signed in print “Charles Kean.” Date not printed; era estimated to Kean’s Princess’s Theatre management (1850s),
