Citation - Pennsylvania Gazette-Philadelphia: 1767.01.29

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Index Entry Actor, Cheer, Miss, to play Cordelia in King Lear [t] 
Location Philadelphia 
Citation
PG-P.767.012
29 Jan 1767:33 (1988)
By authority, by the American Company, at the new Theatre,
in Southwark, to-morrow, being Friday, the 30th of January,
will be presented, a Tagedy [sic] written by Shakespear, and
altered by Tate, called 
The History of King Lear, and his Three Daughters.
King Lear, by Mr. Hallam. Edgar, by Mr. Douglass. Bastard,
by Mr. Wall.  Gloster, by Mr. Morris.  Albany, by Mr. Wall.
Cornwall, by Mr. Graville. Kent, by Mr. Tomlinson. Gentleman
Usher, by Mr. Godwin.  Burgundy, by Mrs. Wall. Gonerill, by
Miss Wainwright. Regan, by Mrs. Harman. Arante, by Mrs.
Tomlinson. Cordelia, by Miss Cheer.
With entertainments, viz. singing by Mr. Woolls, Dancing, by
Mr. Godwin. 
To which will be added, by desire, a Farce, called 
The Citizen.
To begin exactly at six o'clock.
---Vivant Rex & Regina.
No persons can, on any pretence  whatsoever, be admitted
behind the scenes.
---Tickets are sold at the London Coffee-House, at Mr.
Francis's, at the Queen's Head, in Water-street, at Mr.
George Hawkins's, in Walnut-street, and at Mrs. Scott's, in
Lombard-street, where places for the boxes may be taken.
---Ladies and Gentlemen will please send their servants at
four o'clock, to keep their places in the boxes.
---Boxes 7s. 6d. Pit 5s Gallery 3s.


Generic Title Pennsylvania Gazette-Philadelphia 
Date 1767.01.29 
Publisher Hall, David, and William Sellers 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1767 
Bibliography B0036726
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