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Hamlet Travestie

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Description: In three acts with burlesque annotations. Includes preface, advertisement and dramatis personae.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1811 January 24
Call number: mssLA 1659
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Hamlet Travestie. Burlesque, 3 acts. John Poole
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No application. Prod. New Theatre, Jan. 24, 1811. Printed copy, 3d ed., 1811. (Dated Lyceum, Sept. 15, 1812, in B.C.)
LA 1659
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A farce interspersed with music in two acts. Set in Bagdad over an evening, night and morning.
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