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241. Add MS 52938 T

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'Our Nelly’, a domestic drama in two acts. Licence sent 21 March 1853 for performance at the Surrey 28 March 1853. Signed by Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. Songs included in MS. One loose sheet with a song is inserted. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitt...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1853
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1 item

242. Add MS 52938 U

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'The enchanted wives, and the dream spirits’, burlesque in one act. Licence sent 21 March 1853 for performance at the Grecian Saloon 28 March 1853. Signed by manager, but name illegible. Written on different types of paper. Songs included in MS. Keywords: fairies and other supernatural cre...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1853
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1 item

243. Add MS 52938 V

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'The tender chord, or, How to touch the ladies' hearts’, a vaudeville in one act adapted from the French by Charles A. Somerset. Licence sent 23 March 1853 for performance at the Grecian Saloon 28 March 1853. Signed by manager, but name illegible. Songs included in MS. For a French version ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Mar 1853
Extent:
1 item

244. Add MS 52938 W

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'Adelphi fare, three removes and a desert’, burlesque prelude in one act. Licence sent 28 March 1853 for performance at the Adelphi 28 March 1853. Request for licence written and signed by Benjamin Webster. Text written in different hands. Revisions throughout. Keywords: theatre, working w...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1853
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1 item

245. Add MS 52938 X

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'Mr Buckstone's ascent of Mount Parnassus’, burlesque prelude in one act by J. R. Planché. Licence sent 23 March 1853 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 28 March 1853. Request for licence signed by J. B. Buckstone. Songs included in MS. Published in Lacy's, vol. 10, no. 141. Ke...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Mar 1853
Extent:
1 item

246. Add MS 52938 Y

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'The talisman, or, Richard Coeur de Lion and the Knight of the Couchant Leopard’, burlesque in two acts. Licence sent 24 March 1853 for performance at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane 28 March 1853. Revisions throughout. Performed various times from the late eighteenth century on. Keywords: the...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Mar 1853
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1 item

247. Add MS 52938 Z

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'Salvatori (altered from ‘Marco Spada’). or, The bandit's daughter’, drama in three acts by Morris Barnett. Licence sent 23 March 1853 for performance at the Olympic 28 March 1853. Signed by Morris Barnett and W. Farren. 'Marco Spada' written on title page and crossed out. Revisions through...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Mar 1853
Extent:
1 item

248. Add MS 52939 A

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'Elopements in high life’, comedy in five acts by Robert Sullivan. Licence sent 1 April 1853 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 7 April 1853. Request for licence written and signed by J. Baldwin Buckstone. Published in Lacy's, vol. 10, no. 143. Keywords: Jews and Judaism, debt ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1853
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1 item

249. Add MS 52939 A-EE

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Lord Chamberlain's Plays, 1852 - 1866. March - May 1853 .
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Mar 1853-May 1853
Extent:
31 items

250. Add MS 52939 AA

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'The will and the way’, drama in 2 acts. Licence sent 11 May 1853 for performance at the Britannia 16 May 1853. Signed by Samuel Lane, proprietor. For other versions see Add. 52939 O, 52939 Q, 52939 BB, 52939 CC, 52939 DD, and 42942 H. Keywords: adultery, orphans, Indian characters, aristocr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 May 1853
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1 item