Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Adaptation from the Jacobean comedy written by John Fletcher first published in 1647. This version was probably altered by Garrick although it is not on any list of works edited by him. The play is a sequel to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The gender roles are reversed and it is the husband Petruchio who is 'tamed' by his wife Maria.
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Manuscripts
Altered from the collaboration between Shakespeare and Fletcher, 'The Two Noble Kinsmen', which was itself based on a story from Chaucer.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of official copies of plays submitted for licensing between 1737 and 1824. Most of copies were written by professional copyists. Approximately 95 of the plays submitted were printed texts, either whole or partial. These have been cataloged individually and may be searched in the online catalog.
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Visual Materials
Photograph was originally stored with wedding photograph album, but based on attire of individuals in album, the photograph dates from a later period.
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Visual Materials
Image of a central image of a paddle steamer called the Bristol with people on deck and flags flying; a vignette of a ship's captain standing in the "B" of the title text and looking through a spy glass at top center, a vignette of a full-length caricature portrait of a naval officer standing with a sword at bottom left and a vignette of a cartoon of the officer getting sea sick while the ship captain looks on and asks, "Sick Sir?" and the officer responds, "You don't suppose I'm doing this for fun do you?" at bottom right; the poster advertises the comedy-musical show "Fun on the Bristol, Or a Night on the Sound" managed by Edward E. Rice and Henry C. Jarrett.
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Rare Books
Broadside playbill from the Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh, Scotland, from December 20, 1849. Printed by Reid, Printer, Nottingham Place, Edinburgh. It advertises the "Second Night of the New Christmas Harlequinade," featuring the comedy "The Rivals," by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, along with a "New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, founded upon an Old Nursery Tale," titled "Little Boy Blue!![;] Or Harlequin and the Goblin Gnome of the Californian Gold Mines," written by Nelson Lee, Esq. The broadside lists features of the pantomime extensively, including characters and a "Brief Programme of the Principal Scenes, Accidents & Incidents," including a miner named Grizzle, his daughter, Primrose, and his servant, Little Boy Blue. It features "Metallic Gnomes and Aerial Fairies," and settings include "Avarice Farm on the Banks of the Rio Sacramento." It also mentions the "Bull and Mouth Tavern," and "A Moonlight View of the Thames & Hungerford Suspension Bridge." This broadside represents the earliest known reference of the California Gold Rush in Europe.
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