‘The factory girl’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 25 February 1852 for performance at the Bower Saloon 25 February 1852. Actresses’ names for two main parts listed with dramatis personae. Songs included in MS. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that the word ‘damned’ be omitt...
‘Dick Fly by Night and Dare Devil Dan, or, The leap for life’, drama in two acts by H. Young. Licence sent 26 February 1852 for performance at the Bower Saloon 3 March 1852. Title page contains a list of plays by the same author, including ‘Aminta’ (Add. 52929 E). Keywords: crime, poverty, d...
‘A matrimonial prospectus’, farce in one act by J. P. Simpson. Licence sent 27 February 1852 for performance at the Strand 4 March 1852. Published as Matrimonial prospectuses in Lacy's, vol. 6, no. 81. Keywords: the press, bachelors, lodgers and boarding houses, servants, debt and its conseq...
‘No. 3 Fig Tree Court, Temple, or, Us and our clerks’, farce in one act by ‘John Roakes’ (i.e., Tom Taylor). Licence sent 26 February 1852 for performance at the Princess’s 6 March 1852. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 6, no. 80. Keywords: lodgers and boarding houses, law and the legal profession,...
‘An address, expressly for Court Loyal Exchange, to be spoken by Mr. Milborne, written by Nelson Lee on behalf of the Ancient Order of Foresters.’ Licence sent 26 February 1852 for performance at the City of London 2 March 1852. Keywords: philanthropy, poverty. f. 1. Richard Nelson Lee, act...
‘The last of the fairies’ (‘Alice Brooke’, ‘The fairy of the castle’), drama in two acts by Edward Fitzball. Licence sent 28 February 1852 for performance at the Royal Olympic 4 March 1852. Signed by manager, W. Farren. Names of actors pencilled in on dramatis personae. Revisions throughout....
‘The Siccilian bride’ [sic], opera in four acts: libretto by Alfred Bunn ‘after St. Georges’, i.e., J. H. Vernoy de Saint-Georges (the music by Michael Balfe.) Licence sent 1 March 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 6 March 1852. Signed by J. W. Norton. Another name is li...
‘My lover the captain’, farce in one act by J. Edward Thompson. Licence sent 5 March 1852 for performance at the Strand 8 March 1852. Keywords: suburbs, doctors and medicine, science and technology, servants, military, nautical drama, Egypt, disguise, children, cross-dressing, poverty ff. 14. ...
‘White magic’, comic opera in two acts by H. F. Chorley. Licence sent 5 March 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 8 March 1852. Manager: Benjamin Webster. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that the words ‘gospel true’ be omitted. Keywords: French influence, di...