http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:3040 A poster for the first London presentation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was adapted by Tom Taylor and first performed on November 29 1852. The Adelphi was a West End headquarters of middle- class melodrama from the 1820s to 1900. So popular was this novel on the stage that in America special companies, called Tom Shows were formed to tour with it, often playing in circus tents. 2010-04-27T06:13:45.493Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:3061 A very early example of pictorial poster, although not a lithograph, dating from 1852. The Britannia was a famous East End working-class theatre with an identity and an audience of its very own. Aldridge, one of the only black stars of the 19th century stage was actually born in New York. Othello was his best known role, and he toured it all over America and Europe. This poster dates from his farewell season at the Britannia where he also played in The Padlock, The Slave, Bertram, and Titus Andronicus just before Aldridge went on his first Continental tour. 2010-04-27T06:13:31.074Z ]]>