Shakespeare and European Heroics
J.M. Hill Management; distributed at McVicker's Theatre, Chicago
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theatre Collection
Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It were the Shakespeare plays of choice for female actors. This brochure, which depicts the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, promoted Canadian-born Margaret Mather's 1883-84 North American tour in the role of Juliet. Described by actor-manager Otis Skinner as "a chaos of beauty, fancy, ambition, sympathy, generosity, all ill-adjusted and treading upon the other's heels," Mather was considered one of the finest actresses and directors of the 1880s.
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