Broadside Featuring Edwin Booth In the Role of Brutus, Play at the Howard Athenaeum

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Broadside Featuring Edwin Booth In the Role of Brutus

Play at the Howard Athenaeum Booth was an American actor who toured throughout the United States and the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays. In 1869, he founded Booth’s Theatre in New York. Some theatrical historians consider him the greatest American actor, and the greatest Prince Hamlet, of the 19th century. His achievements are often overshadowed by his relationship with his younger brother, actor John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. The Howard Athenæum (1845–1953), also known as Old Howard Theatre, in Boston, Massachusetts, was one of the most famous theaters in Boston history.

Inventory Number:  PRI 183