'Scarlet Dick, or, The road and its riders', by J. B. Howe.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 20 July 1867 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. Nicoll lists the play with the alternative title 'The road and the riders'.
'Lion limb, or, The King of the South Sea Islands', by C. Pitt.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 12 September 1867 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. Acts I and II in separate hands. The name and address: 'Rev Charles E. Donne, Vicarage, Faversham, Kent' noted on folio 27v.
'The dagger and the cross, or, The gibbet of Montfauçon', by B. Hill.
Scope & Content:
Drama in four acts. Licence sent 7 October 1867 for performance at the Grecian. Mr B. O. Conquest [Benjamin Oliver Conquest] noted as actual and responsible manager on folio 1, together with the date of intended production - 10 October 1867. The attribution of the play to B. Hill is taken from N...
'Don Quixote, or, Sancho Panza and his wife Tereza', by C. H. Hazlewood.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 19 December 1867 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. Comic scenes contained separately in folios 18-25. The attribution of the play to C. H. Hazlewood is taken from Nicoll, the name of the dramatist not being recorded o...
'Harlequin Nobody and Little Jack Horner Goody Two Shoes, Old Crosspatch', by T. L. Greenwood.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 21 December 1867 for performance at Astley's. The name of the author is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to T. L. Greenwood and gives the full title of the play as 'Harlequin Nobody and Little Jack Horner, Goody Two Shoes, Oranges and Lemons, and the...
'Guilty or not guilty, or, Justice at fault', by W. G. Young.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 20 February 1868 for performance at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, Glasgow. The full name of the author given as William Gerald Young on the script. Nicoll lists the play as author unknown.
'The Abyssinian War and the death of King Theodore', by W. Travers.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 11 May 1868 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to W. Travers.
'Wedded and lost, or, The perils of a bride', by W. Travers.
Scope & Content:
Drama in a prologue and two acts. Licence sent 21 August 1868 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to W. Travers.