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The Drury Lane printshop
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The Drury Lane printshop

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

Jeffrey Meade’s guess is correct: this type inventory includes a great variety of large sized type. It belongs to a longer document made in June 1819 recording the furniture of the Theatre Royal at Drury Lane when the theater was…

How (not) to mend a tear
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How (not) to mend a tear

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Erin Blake

Going through a box of early 19th-century playbills recently, I was puzzled to see something paper-clipped to an area of loss on the right-hand edge of a bill, as if someone had attached a little note to it: Playbill for…

From Stage to E-page: Theater Archives at the Folger Library
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From Stage to E-page: Theater Archives at the Folger Library

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Georgianna Ziegler

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC opened in 1932. It is representative of a private institution whose collections were very much shaped by the interest of its founders, Henry and Emily Folger. Fortunately for theater historians, the Folgers were…