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Robert C. Hansen Performing Arts Collection

Robert C. Hansen (1951- ) was a professor of theatre and an Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). The Robert C. Hansen Performing Arts Collection dates from 100 to 2012 (bulk 1800s-2000s) and contains programs, heralds, guidebooks and periodicals, playbooks, sheet music and song books, correspondence and autographs, original costume and scenery designs, posters, photographs, postcards, tradecards, other visual materials, scrapbooks, subject files, and other memorabilia which document the history of the performing arts, mainly theatre, in many countries, mainly the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Further geographic foci within the United States include New York City, Minnesota, and North Carolina.

Souvenir Booklet, Lyceum Company, "Becket"
Souvenir Booklet for The Royal Lyceum Theatre production of "Becket." Booklet is bound with a hard back cover. The front cover contains the name of the production, playwright, and the first date the play was presented, Feb. 6, 1893. There are also illustrations of a Catholic mitre and clerical staff crossed with a king's crown and scepter. The back cover states that the booklet was printed at the Chiswick Press by Charles Whittingham and Co. The booklet is 33 pages long and contains design renderings for A Castle in Normandy, Becket's House in London, a Street in Northampton Leading to the Castle, The Hall in Northampton Castle, Montmirail, Outside the Wood, Rosamund's Bower, and the North Transept of Canterbury Cathedral, as well as photographs of sketches of Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) as Becket and Dame Ellen Terry (1847-1928) as Rosamund. Also contains a cast list and synopsis of scenery.

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