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Authors' names weren't included as standard on early posters or playbills, but <i>King Richard III</i> would have been a version of the Shakespeare play, and <i>The Shipwreck</i> was a nautical comic opera written by Samuel James Arnold with music composed by his father Dr. Samuel Arnold.\n\nThe manager of Drury Lane John Philip Kemble (1757-1823) played Richard, Duke of Gloucester, with his younger brother Charles (1775-1854) as Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, who ended  Richard's tyranny. The young princes were played by the teenage actors John Suett (1785-1848), and Frances Maria Jackson (1790-1882), both appearing at Drury Lane for the first time. She went on to become the much-loved actress Frances Maria Kelly who spent most of her 35-year career at Drury Lane. Other interesting actors on this bill were Charlotte Tidswell (1760-1825), best-known as the woman who looked after the actor Edmund Kean as a child after his father died by suicide, the successful actress Anne Biggs (1775-1825), and the prolific actor Richard Wroughton (1748-1822) who had retired from the stage in 1798 to settled in Bath but had been persuaded to return to the stage in 1800 by the Drury Lane management.\n\nThe cast of <i>The Shipwreck</i> included the tenor Charles Dignum (1765-1872), John Bannister (1760-1836) who became manager of Drury Lane from 1802 to 1815, Richard Suett (758-1848), John Suett's father, the petite French dancer Maria-Thérèse de Camp (1774-1838), who married Charles Kemble in 1806, and the dancer Bella, or Arabella Menage (ca.1789-1817), who doubtless danced one of her famous hornpipes in this production.","physicalDescription":"Poster or 'Great Bill' printed in letterpress in black ink on cream paper, headed with a woodcut of the royal crest, advertising <i>King Richard the Third</i> and <i>The Shipwreck</i> to take place: 'tomorrow Tuesday September 23rd, 1800' at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, giving the names of the characters and actors, the ticket prices, where to buy box tickets, the starting time, the name of the printer C. 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Kemble, Mr. Raymond, Mr. Holland, Mr. Charles Kemble, Mr. Packer, Mr. Maddocks, Mr. Caulfield, Mr. Trueman, Mr. Webb, Mr. Sparks, Mr. Surmont, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Evans, Mrs. Powell, Miss Tidswell and Miss Biggs. Performers in <i>The Shipwreck </i>were Mr. Dignum, Mr. Bannister, Mr. Dowton, Mr. Caulfield, Mr. Suett, Master Heather, Miss Stephens, Miss de Camp, and Miss B. Menage. The box keeper was Mr. Fosbrook and the printer Mr. C. Lowndes. The pieces advertised for the following Thursday were the comedy <i>The Wheel of Fortune</i> and the musical entertainment <i>The Children in the Wood</i>.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Poster or 'Great Bill' advertising <i>King Richard the Third</i> by William Shakespeare and <i>The Shipwreck</i> written by Samuel James Arnold and composed by Dr. Arnold, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 23rd September 1800. Woodcut and letterpress printed by C. 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