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Title: Edmund Kean letter to Drury Lane committee
Creator: Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833
Date Created and/or Issued: circa July 1816
Publication Information: Honnold Mudd Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Philbrick Library Collection of Theater Letters
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Honnold Mudd Library Special Collections at https://library.claremont.edu/scl/
Description: Kean writes a letter to the Drury Lane Committee to decline the role of Joseph Surface in the play The School for Scandal. Kean, whose strength was drama, rejected the role because it was comedic. The Committee, which included Lord Byron, requested that he play the part because Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the author of the play, had recently died, and the Committee desired to revive his plays as a memorial. Letter contains the watermark of "Thomas & Pine 1811."
Type: text
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: phl00458
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/phl/id/2569
Language: English
Subject: Acting
Committees
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833
Letters
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
Watermarks
Source: Handwritten letter, autographed, 7.25 x 8.75 inches: Philbrick Library of Dramatic Arts and Theatre History, Autograph letters box 10, folder 13; 4 pages
Relation: Philbrick Library Collection of Theater Letters - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/phl

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