Document ID ET-D379

Archive Location ET PROGS ET-D235-418, 1908-1918 (BL) Loan 125/22/8
Document description programme
Date 1911
Document form D - Programme
Condition torn
Production Date(s) [May/June 1911]
Venue address London
General notes Ellen Terry's Shakespeare lecture, including Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Coriolanus, The Merchant of Venice. Some authorial assistance from Christopher St John.
Language English

Works Cited

Title The Triumphant Heroines of Shakespeare
Original author Ellen Terry
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Miss ELLEN TERRY RECITAL PROGRAMME THREEPENCE By arrangement with the QUINLAN INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL AGENCY. 318 Regent Street, London, W

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Miss ELLEN TERRY WILL GIVE A Shakespearean Recital With Illustrative Acting, ON Some of the Heroines from Shakespeare's Plays. THE Recital will be divided into Two Parts (with an interval of five minutes). In the course fo the First Part MISS TERRY will comment on BEATRICE. --- In the Second Part the Subjects will be:- ROSALIND, CELIA, VIRGILIA, VOLUMNIA, PORTIA. Some of Shakespeare's Heroines. --- THE TRIUMPHANT WOMAN. Part I. Beatrice - "Much Ado About Nothing." (With Extracts, including the Church Scene) --- INTERVAL OF FIVE MINUTES. --- Part II. Rosalind - "As You Like It." Celia - "As You Like It." Virgillia - "Coriolanus." (With Extracts) Volumnia - "Coriolanus." (With Extracts) Portia = "Merchant of Venice" (Including the Mercy Speech).

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[photograph] Miss ELLEN TERRY AS "BEATRICE".

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Document ID: ET-D379 Archive location: ET PROGS ET-D235-418, 1908-1918 (BL) Loan 125/22/8