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Title

The merchant of Florence :

Authors

• Noah, M. M. 1785-1851

Other related names

• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939-, donor
• Kaplan, Deanne, donor

Call number

MS 56, Codex 027.1
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977558535603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1129194663
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p30v89n78

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

New York, 1834

Summary

A ruled volume comprising the handwritten play The merchant of Florence performed at the Bowery Theatre in New York in 1834. The play is a tragedy as indicated on the title page in pencil. The play was written by an unknown author presumably a literati from New York. Following the title is written: by the author of the Venetian bride* , The mountain man ... copyright secured. The note for the asterisk is in pencil at the bottom of the title page reads: written expressly for and performed at the benefit of W. G. [J]ones of the Bowery Theatre. The text of the play is written in black and the characters and stage directions are written in red ink. Laid in the volume is a critique of The merchant of Florence written by Jewish-American playwright, diplomat, and journalist Mordecai Manuel Noah dated October 22, 1834. The review of the play considered dialogue, language, and stage craft. A small portion of the title page is torn.

Extent

1 volume +

Provenance

• Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Collectify accession no. 2006.12.26.02968).
   

Subjects topical

• Drama--New York (State)--New York--19th century
• Jews--New York (State)--New York--19th century
• Bowery Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
• Bowery Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
• Jews
• Drama
• New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Tragedies (Drama)
• Tragedies (Drama)
• Theater reviews
• Theater reviews
• Manuscripts, American--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• 1 — Title page
• 3 — Dramatis Personae
• 5 — Act 1st
• 5 — Scene 1st
• 11 — Scene 2nd
• 15 — Scene 3rd
• 22 — Act 2nd
• 22 — Scene 1st
• 27 — Scene 2nd
• 33 — Scene 3rd
• 38 — Scene 4th
• 43 — Act 3rd
• 43 — Scene 1st
• 50 — Scene 2nd
• 52 — Scene 3rd
• 55 — Act 4th
• 55 — Scene 1st
• 58 — Scene 2nd
• 66 — Scene 3rd
• 67 — Scene 4th
• 73 — Act 5th
• 73 — Scene 1st
• 78 — Scene 2nd
• 81 — Scene 3rd
• 84 — Scene 4th
• 95 — The following is omitted in 4th page of 4th scene in Act 4th