The Rise and Fall of the New Edinburgh Theatre Royal, 1767-1859: Archival Documents and Performance History

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Judith Bailey Slagle, East Tennessee State UniversityFollow

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1-1-2015

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Excerpt: In 1859, the Edinburgh house of Wood and Company published a Sketch of the History of the Edinburgh Th eatre-Royal in honor of its fi nal performance and closing, its author lamenting that “Th is House, which has been a scene of amusement to the citizens of Edinburgh for as long as most of them have lived, has at length come to the termination of its own existence” (3).

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This document was published with permission from the journal. It was originally published in the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research.

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Slagle, Judith Bailey. 2015. The Rise and Fall of the New Edinburgh Theatre Royal, 1767-1859: Archival Documents and Performance History. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research. Vol.30(1,2). 5-29. https://rectrjournal.org/current-issue/ ISSN: 0034-5822