| PREVIOUS | NEXT | NEW SEARCH |
Olympic Theatre. [Review]
CREATED/PUBLISHED
London, England: Times?, after July 2, 1857
NOTES
Review of Masaniello, or, The Fish'oman of Naples a farce by Robert Barnabas Brough (1828-1860) with Frederick Robson (1821-1864) in the main role. Again, Dodgson was in the audience. He noted in his diary for July 2, 1857: "We went to the Olympic in the evening, and saw All in the Wrong, a very fair comedy, admirably acted, and (first time of acting) the extravaganza of Masaniello by Robert Brough. It was capitally acted by all, though Robson of course shone most, especially as the piece was clearly written for him. Cooke made a most amusing policeman. Miss Swanborough and Miss Bromley were most captivating princes. Robson had tremendous work in singing and dancing. One of his songs was a parody on the new one of Mrs. Barney Williams, "Yankee Fixings." He gave several admirable burlesques on "bits" of Kean's acting, and towards the end, where he is driven mad by poison, he went through a marvellous tissue of raving, crying, laughing, scraps of plays, snatches of songs, etc."
SUBJECT
Newspapers
Reviews
Times (London, England)
MEDIUM
Newspaper clipping
LANGUAGE
English
PART OF
Lewis Carroll Scrapbook at the Library of Congress, page 10
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Washington, D.C. 20540
DIGITAL ID
lchtml 001002
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lchtml.001002
RELATED ITEMS
(View item in context of scrapbook; Lewis Carroll Scrapbook, page 10.)
| PREVIOUS | NEXT | NEW SEARCH |