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Philadelphia theatre. Doors will be opened at half past 5 ... Friday evening, October 22, 1819 : will be presented ... an historical play, in 5 acts, called The first part of Henry the Fourth; or, The humours of Sir John Falstaff. Written by Shakspeare. ... : [After] which ... a grand historical and patriotic drama, called [Si]gesmar the Switzer; [or, the] Helvetian patriots.

Other author/creatorChestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1819]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 51932. ^A575643
General notePerformed at the Chestnut Street Theatre.
General note"[Box, one] dollar--pit, seventy-five cents--gallery, fifty cents. A few season tickets for sale at no. 2, Decatur-Street, and no. 218, Market-Street."
General noteThe original, held by the University of Pennsylvania, is mutilated; portions of text supplied from similar playbills.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 51932
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 51932).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formPlaybills.

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