14 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. printed broadside. (Some spotting.)

THE FIRST AND ONLY PERFORMANCE BY BOOTH AS CHARLES DE MOOR IN SCHILLER'S THE ROBBERS DURING HIS FINAL THEATRICAL ENGAGEMENT.

The Robbers was Friedrich Schiller's first dramatic play and is widely regarded as highly influential in the development of European melodrama. It tells the tale of two aristocratic brothers, Franz and Karl (performed in the United States as Francis and Charles), locked in a battle for their father's inheritance.

In this play, Booth played Charles, the elder, more carefree and rebellious son, who is disinherited of his father's fortune by his younger brother's machinations and becomes a murderous criminal.

In the role of Amelia during this performance was Kate Reignolds, an English-American actress who would later write of Booth during this engagement, "The stage door was always blocked with silly women wanting to catch a glimpse, as he passed..." It was during this engagement that Booth met sixteen-year-old Isabel Sumner, with whom he would carry on a flirtation through letters shortly after leaving Boston.