Promoting the Royal Coburg Theatre, 1822–1823: William Barrymore, William Hodgson and the Actor Portraits of Piercy Roberts.
This article examines a previously unrecognised business relationship between a London theatre and a toy-theatre publisher. William Barrymore, the manager of the Royal Coburg (now the Old Vic) in 1822–23, seems to have given William Hodgson, the head of Hodgson & Co., exclusive rights to publish pri...
| Publicado en: | Nineteenth Century Theatre & Film Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 141 - 174 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Nov2025
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