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Aucassin and Nicolete

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    Aucassin and Nicolete / translated and edited with introduction by Harold Child ; illustrated by A. Anderson

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    Subseries A. Music and Theater (large size)

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    This subseries contains 372 large-size items that pertain to theatrical and musical entertainment in the United States from 1838 to 1928. The majority of items consist of posters related to the theater, dance and musical spectacles, musicians and concerts, and burlesque, comedy, pantomime, and variety troupes and shows. Many of the posters advertise dramatic productions of plays, and related stage actors and actresses, in genres such as Shakespearian dramas, melodramas, romance, comedy, crime, mystery, and Westerns. Images typically depict scenes from plays and shows or contain portraits of entertainers.

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