£135.00
Date 21/08/1926
Haymarket Theatre Royal – Tribulation – 1826
An original Dick’s Standard Plays edition of Tribulation by John Poole, the original complete edition of a comedy in two acts first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, on 21st August 1826.
It runs to 14 pages plus publisher’s adverts. John Poole was one of the most successful comic writers of the 1820s, best remembered for Paul Pry.
Cheap acting editions like this kept old comedies in circulation for Victorian readers and amateur players, and make appealing theatre memorabilia today.
| Production | Tribulation |
|---|---|
| Venue | Theatre Royal – Haymarket |
Genuine Theatre Programme / Memorabilia.
Condition: V Good, lcr, browned, bottom right front page only corner clipped, slight bottom edge wear, a 2" split on the spine
Did you know?
- John Poole’s Paul Pry (1825) was so popular that ‘Paul Pry’ became a byword for a nosy, interfering person.
- Dick’s Standard Plays, published by John Dicks, sold hundreds of plays in cheap paper editions, bringing drama within reach of ordinary readers.
- The present Theatre Royal Haymarket, designed by John Nash, had opened just five years before Tribulation’s premiere, in 1821.
SKU: T02846
