This present Wednesday, June 30, 1824, will be acted the comedy of As you like it. With additional songs, &c. The words selected entirely from the sonnets & plays of Shakspeare .. A concert ... to conclude with the melo-drama of The magpie, or the maid?

Record ID: 
411416
Accession number: 
PMC 1211.1
Title: 
This present Wednesday, June 30, 1824, will be acted the comedy of As you like it. With additional songs, &c. The words selected entirely from the sonnets & plays of Shakspeare .. A concert ... to conclude with the melo-drama of The magpie, or the maid?
Published: 
London : Printed by W. Reynolds, 9, Denmark-court, Strand, [1824].
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund in 1998.
Notes: 

"Previous to the play [As you like it] the overture der Freyschutz, by Weber .. Previous to which [The magpie, or the maid?], Rossini's overture to La gazza ladra."
Cast list for As you like it: Mr. Egerton, Mr. Evans, Mr. Duruset, Mr. Young, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Horrebow, Mr. Claremont, Mr. Ley, Mr. Connor, Mr. Baker, Mr. Chapman, Mr. Norris, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. George, Mr. Henry, Mr. Atkins, Miss M. Tree, Miss A. Tree, Miss Henry, Mrs. Gibbs, Master Longhurst.
Concert: God save the King, with Drouet's variations, by Master Minasi, aged nine years -- Glee : The Red Cross knights -- Song : Rest, warrior, rest : Miss M. Tree -- Song : No joy without my love, accompanied by herself on the harp, Miss A. Tree -- Home! Sweet home! by Miss M.Tree -- A fantasia on the harp by Mr. Oliver Davis.
Cast list for The magpie, or the maid?: Mr. Egerton, Mr T.P. Cooke, Mr Chapman, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Farley, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Atkins, Mr. Norris, Mrs. Davenport, Miss M Tree.
Includes announcements for performances at Covent Garden for the following week:The school for scandal, A day after the wedding, The forest of Bondy, Cent per cent, The school of reform, The Irish tutor, The hunter of the Alps, King Henry the Fourth, Town and country, The Irish widow, Ella Rosenberg.

Associated names: 

Reynolds, William, active 1823-1843, printer.