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Pollock's Characters & Scenes in the Battle of Waterloo
Folded sheets, equating to 44 individual pages, displaying line drawings of many of the characters involved in the Battle of Waterloo plus some scenes of the battlefield.
Originally published with instructions to perform a melodrama in a toy theatre and also intended to be hand coloured to improve the look! Originally published with a playbook to assist in staging the production.
Bibliographical details: The original publication date of 1885 is an estimated one as the definitive date is not known.
Originally published with instructions to perform a melodrama in a toy theatre and also intended to be hand coloured to improve the look! Originally published with a playbook to assist in staging the production.
Bibliographical details: The original publication date of 1885 is an estimated one as the definitive date is not known.
44 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1885
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February 9, 2025
Originally published to be hand coloured and used in a toy theatre to perform a military melodrama, this is a facsimile edition published almost 100 years after the original.
Juvenile drama emerged in England soon after 1800, forming itself from the adult drama of the time. Apparently the plays were adapted from their original stage version into a miniature toy version with actors, costumes and scenery intended for a juvenile audience. Characters and scenes were intended to be cut out and dramatized.
This drama, J.H. Amherst's 'The Battle of Waterloo' was first performed at Astley's Ampitheatre, in 1824. The toy theatre characters and scenes were first published by John Kilby Green in 1842 and subsequently by John Redington. Pollock took over from Redington in 1876 and republished some of the plays including this one, which still retains a couple of scenes by Green himself.
It is an interesting concept although without staging instructions, I imagine it would be difficult to stage but it is an historical document in that over 80 figures involved in the battle are depicted along with certain scenes of where the action took place.
Juvenile drama emerged in England soon after 1800, forming itself from the adult drama of the time. Apparently the plays were adapted from their original stage version into a miniature toy version with actors, costumes and scenery intended for a juvenile audience. Characters and scenes were intended to be cut out and dramatized.
This drama, J.H. Amherst's 'The Battle of Waterloo' was first performed at Astley's Ampitheatre, in 1824. The toy theatre characters and scenes were first published by John Kilby Green in 1842 and subsequently by John Redington. Pollock took over from Redington in 1876 and republished some of the plays including this one, which still retains a couple of scenes by Green himself.
It is an interesting concept although without staging instructions, I imagine it would be difficult to stage but it is an historical document in that over 80 figures involved in the battle are depicted along with certain scenes of where the action took place.
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