Document ID ET-D436

Archive Location ET PROGS ET-D418a-551;561a-589, 1899-1911 (BL) Loan 125/23A/1
Document description programme
Date [1911] [4]
Document form D - Programme
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General notes Ellen Terry's Shakespearean recital. Illustration of Ellen Terry as Portia on reverse.
Language English

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Title The Pathetic & Triumphant Heroines of Shakespeare
Original author Ellen Terry
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MISS ELLEN TERRY RECITAL PROGRAMME TWOPENCE. By arrangement with the QUINLAN ITERNATIONAL MUSICAL AGENCY, 31 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 of the First Part Mr TERRY will comment on the following Heroines of Shakespeare's Plays :- VIOLA, DESDEMONA, EMILIA, JULIET. --- In the Second Part the subjects will be :- KATHERINE, LADY ANNE, HELENA, JULIA CONSTANCE, CORDELIA, CLEOPATRA KATHERINE OF ARRAGON HERMIONE IMOGEN, CRESSIDA, LADY MACBETH, OPHELIA, PORTIA. Some of Shakespeare's Heroines. THE PATHETIC WOMEN. Part I. Viola - with Extracts from "Twelfth Night." Desdemona - with Scene from "Othello." Emilia - with Scene from "Othello." Juliet - with Scene from "Romeo and Juliet." (including the Potion Scene). --- INTERVAL OF FIVE MINUTES. --- Part II. Katherine - "Taming of the Shrew." Lady Anne - "Richard III" Helena - "All's Well That Ends Well" Julia - "Two Gentlemen of Verona." Constance - "King John." Cordelia - with Scene from "King Lear." Cleopatra - with Extract from "Antony & Cleopatra." Katherine of Arragon with Extract from Henry VIII. Hermione with Scene from "A Winter's Tale." Imogen - "Cymheline." Cressida - "Troilus and Cressida" Lady Macbeth - with Extracts from "Macbeth." Ophelia - with Scenes from "Hamlet." Portia - "The Merchant of Venice" (The Mercy Speech.)

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[photograph] Miss ELLEN TERRY as "PORTIA."

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Document ID: ET-D436 Archive location: ET PROGS ET-D418a-551;561a-589, 1899-1911 (BL) Loan 125/23A/1