FRANKLIN AND BUCHAN EXPEDITION – BARRYMORE, William. The North Pole; or, The Arctic Expedition . Royal Coburg Theatre. 29 June 1818. [London:] Hartnell and Albion-Press, 1818. An original playbill for Barrymore’s ballet and melodrama, the first to dramatize Arctic exploration for the stage . News of expeditions for the North Pole had captured the public’s imagination and the production played for a packed house each night for six weeks (Lewis-Jones-. The bill announces that the play is “partly founded on the present expedition to the Arctic Regions, and intended to give as correct an idea as possible of the dreadful dangers and hardships our gallant Countrymen are about to expose themselves to,” and includes a “ship of immense size, fully rigged and manned, with [...] floating islands of ice.” The Royal Coburg later became the famous Old Vic, and in addition to writing and producing this play, Barrymore was also the theater’s longtime manager. Other 19th-century dramatizations of exploration included North Pole; or, A Tale of the Frozen Regions (1829) and Captain Ross; or the Hero of the Arctic Regions (1833). Captain Buchan aboard the Dorothea and Lieutenant Franklin on the Trent set sail in an attempt to reach the North Pole on 25 April 1818. Huw Lewis-Jones- Imagining the Arctic . Broadside, 306 x 203mm (minor edgewear). Provenance : John Windle, Antiquarian Bookseller.
FRANKLIN AND BUCHAN EXPEDITION – BARRYMORE, William. The North Pole; or, The Arctic Expedition . Royal Coburg Theatre. 29 June 1818. [London:] Hartnell and Albion-Press, 1818. An original playbill for Barrymore’s ballet and melodrama, the first to dramatize Arctic exploration for the stage . News of expeditions for the North Pole had captured the public’s imagination and the production played for a packed house each night for six weeks (Lewis-Jones-. The bill announces that the play is “partly founded on the present expedition to the Arctic Regions, and intended to give as correct an idea as possible of the dreadful dangers and hardships our gallant Countrymen are about to expose themselves to,” and includes a “ship of immense size, fully rigged and manned, with [...] floating islands of ice.” The Royal Coburg later became the famous Old Vic, and in addition to writing and producing this play, Barrymore was also the theater’s longtime manager. Other 19th-century dramatizations of exploration included North Pole; or, A Tale of the Frozen Regions (1829) and Captain Ross; or the Hero of the Arctic Regions (1833). Captain Buchan aboard the Dorothea and Lieutenant Franklin on the Trent set sail in an attempt to reach the North Pole on 25 April 1818. Huw Lewis-Jones- Imagining the Arctic . Broadside, 306 x 203mm (minor edgewear). Provenance : John Windle, Antiquarian Bookseller.
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