London His Majesty’s Theatre – Drake – 1912

About this Drake theatre programme

A programme for Drake at His Majesty’s Theatre, London, dated 3 September 1912. Louis N Parker’s patriotic pageant play about Sir Francis Drake was a Herbert Beerbohm Tree production, with Roy Byford, Howard Rose, Ben Field and Archibald Goddard in the cast. A colourful reminder of Edwardian spectacle on the eve of the Great War, and a great addition to any collection of old theatre programmes.

Condition: Good, cfld, lcr, spine fully split, a few age marks/ni's (what the codes mean)

Did you know?

• Louis N Parker was famous for devising historical pageants, starting with the Sherborne Pageant of 1905.
• Parker also translated Cyrano de Bergerac for the English stage and wrote Disraeli.