Alcestis: A Lyric Play (1855)

Original id:

6844

Start date:

15 January 1855

End date:

26 January 1855

Degree of relationship to ancient play:

Adaptation

Production notes:

Spicer's play was adapted from Hippolyte Lucas' Alceste and Euripides, and also included extracts from Gluck's opera Alceste.

Media of production:

Stage-play

Languages:

English

Companies:

Ancient works:

Information related to this production

Venue	Festival	Dates	Notes
St James's Theatre (London, Greater London, England)		15 January, 1855 to 26 January, 1855

Source	Format	Location if held at the APGRD	Pagination
Alcestis on the British stage	Photocopy	archive	281, 291-294, 297; illustration of playbill following 308
Offprint : chapter by Edith Hall : 1845 and all that : singing Greek tragedy on the London stage	Offprint	archive
The Observer: Music and the Drama. Monday edition	Print-out	archive
The Observer: Music and the Drama. Sunday edition	Print-out	archive

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