Description

Caption: " Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Edwin Booth, present Shakespeare's: 'Hamlet.' Staged by: Samuel Selden. The Forest Theatre. 'No man of mortal mold, save him whose blessed feet were nailed for our advantage to the bitter cross, ever trod this earth commanding such absorbing interest as this 'Hamlet' - this mere creation of a poet's brain. Upon no throne built by mortal hands has ever blazed so fierce a light as on that airy fabric reared at Elsinore - Furness." RF photo #21191.

Creator

Carolina Playmakers

Source

Rockefeller Archive Center, Rockefeller Foundation records, photographs, series 236.R, box 54, folder 1284

Date

1935-05-24/1935-05-25

Rights

To the extent that the donor owns copyright in these materials, he/she has given the Rockefeller Archive Center the authority to grant permission to cite and publish material from the collection for scholarly purposes; however, copyright in some items may be held by their respective creators. Please consult an archivist for further details.

Format

image/jpeg

Type

image

Identifier

003397

Spatial Coverage

Chapel Hill (N.C.) North Carolina

Citation

Carolina Playmakers, “Scenes from "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare,” 100 Years: The Rockefeller Foundation, accessed January 2, 2021, https://rockfound.rockarch.org/digital-library-listing/-/asset_publisher/yYxpQfeI4W8N/content/scenes-from-hamlet-by-william-shakespeare