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Object Description
| Title | [Souvenir Booklet, Lyceum Company, "Becket"] |
| Date | 1904 |
| Creator | Partridge, J. Bernard;Telbin, W.;Harker, J.;Hawes Craven |
| Contributor | George Bell & Sons |
| Production | Becket |
| Character roles | Henry Irving (Thomas Becket); Mr. Gerald Lawrence (Henry II); H. B. Stanford (King Louis of France); Mr. Walter Reynolds (Gilbert Foliot); Mr. William Lugg (Roger); Mr. Farren (John of Salisbury); Mr. James Hearn (Herbert of Bosham); Mr. Mark Paton (John of Oxford); Mr. F. Tyars (Sir Reginald Fitzurse); Mr. G. Graystone (Sir Richard De Brito); Mr. Lionel Belmore (Sir William De Tracy); Mr. F. D. Daviss (Sir Hugh De Morville); Mr. J. Archer (Richard De Hastings); Mr. Leslie Palmer (The Youngest Knight Templar); Mr. Vincent Sternroyd (Lord Leicester); Mr. Yeldham (Philip De Eleemosyna); Mr. H. R. Cook (Herald); Mr. Gurney (Monk); Master Cyril Smith (Geoffrey); Mr. A. Fisher; Mr. W. L. Ablett; Mr. C. Dodsworth; Mr. T. Reynolds; Mr. W. Marion; Mrs. Cecil Raleigh (Eleanor of Aquitaine); Miss Grace Hampton (Margery); Miss Maud Fealy (Rosamund De Clifford) |
| Artistic roles | Sir Henry Irving (Actor, Manager); Lord Tennyson (Playwright) |
| Genre | Romantic drama; |
| Theme | Famous Companies |
| Places | London |
| Item description | Souvenir Booklet for The Royal Lyceum Theatre production of "Becket." Booklet is bound with a hard back cover. The front cover contains the name of the production, playwright, and the first date the play was presented, Feb. 6, 1893. There are also illustrations of a Catholic mitre and clerical staff crossed with a king's crown and scepter. The back cover states that the booklet was printed at the Chiswick Press by Charles Whittingham and Co. The booklet is 33 pages long and contains design renderings for A Castle in Normandy, Becket's House in London, a Street in Northampton Leading to the Castle, The Hall in Northampton Castle, Montmirail, Outside the Wood, Rosamund's Bower, and the North Transept of Canterbury Cathedral, as well as photographs of sketches of Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) as Becket and Dame Ellen Terry (1847-1928) as Rosamund. Also contains a cast list and synopsis of scenery. |
| Object narrative | This is a souvenir book from The Lyceum Company's production of "Becket" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, starring Henry Irving as Becket. The hardbound book lists the first production of BECKET as being 6th Feb., 1893, but this particular book was published in 1904 for the 1904 tour. It was purchased by a Ms. Winifred Olive Callwell in November 1904 in Edinburgh. It contains a cast list which includes Henry Irving, his son Laurence Irving, and Mabel Hackney in the role of Rosamund De Clifford, the role Ellen Terry always played before she left the company in 1902. In this book, however, Ms. Callwell has marked out the names of Laurence Irving and Mabel Hackney and listed replacement actors, possibly understudies who filled those roles on the night the show was attended. There is a synopsis of scenery on page three, followed by detailed black and white drawings depicting moments from the show. Included are pictures of Irving as Becket, Ellen Terry as Rosamund, and settings of the Prologue (A Castle in Normandy), Act I., Scene 1 (Becket's House in London), Act I., Scene 2 (Street in Northampton Leading to the Castle), Act I., Scene 4 (The Hall in Northampton Castle), Act III., Scene 1 (Montmirail - The Meeting of the Kings), Act III., Scene 2 (Outside the Wood, Near Rosamund's Bower), Act III., Scene 3 (Rosamund's Bower), and Act IV., Scene 3 (North Transept of Canterbury Cathedral). The book shows the rich artistry of the scene painting (even in black and white) and attention to detail Irving showed to the sets of his productions. There is a nice balance struck between the beauty of the sets and elements needed to tell the story well. |
| Type | Text; |
| Original format | Program; |
| Original publisher | [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
| Language | en |
| Contributing institution | Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
| Source collection | MSS255 Robert C. Hansen Performing Arts Collection |
| Series/grouping | 1.1.2.2: Programs -- Theatre Programs -- International Theatre Programs -- UK |
| Box | 50 |
| Finding aid link | http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/scua/collections/manuscripts/ead/mss255.xml |
| Preferred citation | [Identification of item], Robert C. Hansen Performing Arts Collection, 1753-2006 (MSS255), Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives and Manuscripts, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA. |
| Rights statement | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
| Additional rights information | NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determing actual copyright status for any reuse of the material. |
| Object ID | MSS255.B50.004 |
| Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 |
| OCLC number | 872280649 |
Page/Item Description
| Title | MSS255_B50_004-01 |
| Language | English |
| Contributing institution | Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
| Finding aid link | http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/scua/collections/manuscripts/ead/mss255.xml |
| Preferred citation | [Identification of item], Robert C. Hansen Performing Arts Collection, 1753-2006 (MSS255), Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives and Manuscripts, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA. |
