Monday, May 28, & during the week, the performances will commence with a farce, in one act, by Mr. J.M. Morton, entitled "Away with Melancholy" ... After which, will be presented .... Shakespere's historical play of King Henry the Eighth.

Record ID: 
418930
Accession number: 
PMC 1337
Title: 
Monday, May 28, & during the week, the performances will commence with a farce, in one act, by Mr. J.M. Morton, entitled "Away with Melancholy" ... After which, will be presented .... Shakespere's historical play of King Henry the Eighth.
Published: 
[London] : John K. Chapman and Company, 5, Shoe-lane, and Peterborough-court, Fleet Street, [1855]
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund, 1998.
Notes: 

Single sheet; text formatted in 3 pages, broadside format; with text printed on recto only.
Title from center page.
Page at left consists of a dramaturgical discussion of King Henry the Eighth by Charles Kean.
Page at center includes full cast and credits list, and page at right lists the scenes in King Henry the Eighth.
Partial cast of Away with melancholy: Mr. David Fisher (Windsor Brown), Mr. Meadows (Mr Trimmer), Miss Murray (Mrs. Maynard).
Partial cast of King Henry the Eighth: Mr. Walter Lacy (King Henry the Eighth), Mr. Charles Kean (Cardinal Wolsey), Mr. F. Cooke (Cardinal Campetus), Mr. Paulo (Capucius), Mr. Graham (Cranmer), Mr. James Vining (Duke of Norfolk), Mr. Ryder (Duke of Buckingham), Mrs. Charles Kean (Queen Katharine), Miss Heath (Anne Boleyn).
The overture and music to King Henry the Eighth by J.L. Hatton.

Associated names: 

Kean, Charles John, 1811?-1868.

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Department: 
Music Manuscripts and Printed Music
Music Collection: 
Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection