Hamlet

Event Information

Venue(s):
Winter Garden

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 February 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
20 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
21 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
22 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
23 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
24 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  Edwin Thomas Booth (role: Hamlet)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 19 December 1864, 4.

Listed in “Amusements This Evening.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 December 1864, 7.

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 19 December 1864, 4.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 19 December 1864, 7.

5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 24 December 1864, 295.

“New scenery, music, properties, and machinery, in a style combining a splendor of production unsurpassed, with strict historical accuracy.”

6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 December 1864, 7.

Christmas evenings with Shakespeare.  Hamlet, fifth week.