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'Life and adventures of Will Shakespeare, the poacher, the player and the poet, or, The golden days of Good Queen Bess', by H. F. Saville.
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Drama in three acts. Licence sent 7 April 1864 for performance at the Marylebone. The name of the theatre propretor J. A. Cave [Joseph Arnold Cave] noted on folio 1. MS in two hands.
'The King of the Golden Valley, or, Harlequin Tom Tidler, Little Boy Blue and the old woman who lived under the hill', by Nelson Lee Jnr.
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Pantomime in one act. Licence sent 21 December 1864 for performance at the City of London. The name Nelson Lee noted below the details of the theatre on folio 1. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53703) lists the play with the spelling of 'Tidler' altered to 'Tiddler'.
'King Flame and Queen Pearly Drop, or, Harlequin Simple Simon and the pretty little mermaid at the bottom of the sea', by N. Lee, Jnr.
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Pantomime in one act. Licence sent 26 December 1865 for performance at the City of London. The playwrights F. Marchant and W. Travers are noted below the details of the theatre on folio 1.
'The devil on two sticks, or, Harlequin the golden tree, bird and apple, or, The princess and the fairy fiancée', by G. Conquest.
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Pantomime. Licence sent 22 December 1866 for performance at the Grecian. Mr B. O. Conquest [Benjamin Oliver Conquest] noted as the actual and responsible manager on folio 1. The attribution of authorship is taken from Nicoll, the name of the playwright not being recorded on the script.
Sinbad the Sailor, or, Harlequin Old Man of the Sea, the Emperor, the Ogre, the Good Fairy and the Princess, by C. H. Hazlewood.
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Pantomime. Licence sent 27 December 1866 for performance at the Pavilion. Printed (folios 1-2; 5-16) by E. J. Bath, 26 High Street, Whitechapel (n.d.). Folios 3-4 and 17-18 are manuscript, being a letter from Henry Powell, lessee of the theatre, to W. B. Donne, Examiner of Plays, dated 27 Decembe...
'The defaulter, the dupe and decoy, or, Jack Sheppard and Thames Darrell, the good and bad apprentices', by S. French.
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Burlesque. The play was to have been performed at the Marylebone but the licence was refused. A letter to W. B. Donne, Examiner of Plays, dated 22 June 1866 and signed '(illegible) March', informes the Examiner of Plays that the Lord Chamberlain agrees with the recommendation to refuse the play ...
I martiri’ (‘The martyrs’), lyric tragedy in four acts; libretto for the opera by Donizetti. Printed. Italian, with English translation, by Manfredo Maggioni. Licence sent 14 April 1852 for performance at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden. Donizetti originally composed the opera in Ita...
'The yellow dwarf' ('The yellow dwarf, and the king of the gold mines'), an extravaganza in one act. Licence sent 21 December 1854 for performance at the Olympic 26 December 1854. Songs included in MS in a different hand and ink as though added in later. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the st...
'Joe Miller, or Harlequin wit, jollity and satire', comic pantomime by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 23 December 1857 for performance at the Marylebone the same day. Includes comic scenes. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that a few lines be omitted. Keywords: harlequinade, workin...