Landscape-format cream silk playbill with black letterpress typeface, in three columns and edged all round with gold-coloured metallic fringe. The left-hand column is headed with a lion and unicorn crest and the name of the theatre 'ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE' and that of the manager 'Mr. CHARLES KEAN'. Below that is the title of the play 'MACBETH', a note that it was selected for representation at Windsor Castle on 4th February, and a long discursive note by Charles Kean on the sources of the costume and an acknowledgement of the advice he received from George Godwin FRS. The centre panel has the date of the play WEDNESDAY March 16, 1853, the title of the play, the cast, and a list of the scenery and its designers. The right hand column cridits the 2-act farce A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER and its cast, below which is a note of future productions, <i>The Corsican Brothers</i>; <i>St. Cupid, or Dorothy's Fortune</i>, and <i> Marcospada</i>