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12131. Add MS 53005 M

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'My Lord and my Lady, or, "It might have been worse" ', comedy in five acts by J. R. Planché. Licence sent 8 July 1861 for performance at the Haymarket. Actors’ names listed next to dramatis personæ. Cuts in ink and red pencil, stage cues in pencil. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 52, no. 766. f...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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8 Jul 1861
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1 item

12132. Add MS 53009 D

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'All in the dark', farce in one act by J. R. Planché. Licence sent 20 November 1861 for performance at the New Royalty. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records place of performance as the Soho . Previously performed as 'All in the dark, or, The banks of the Elbe', 1822. Adapted from the French of V...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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20 Nov 1861
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1 item

12133. Add MS 52931 I

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‘Oh Gemini, or, The brothers of course’, burlesque in one act by G. Abbott à Beckett and Mark Lemon. Licence sent 8 April 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 12 April 1852. Signed by Benjamin Webster. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that a speech criticizing ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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8 Apr 1852
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1 item

12134. Add MS 52931 S

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‘A chain of events’, drama in eight acts by ‘Slingsby Lawrence’ (i.e. G. H. Lewes) and C. J. Matthews. Licence sent 11 April 1852 for performance at the Lyceum 12 April 1852. The whole of Act II is devoted to scenic effect with no dialogue at all. Songs included with MS. For another version...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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11 Apr 1852
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1 item

12135. Add MS 52933 CC

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‘The master passion’, comedy in two acts by Mrs. Alfred Philips. Licence sent 31 August 1852 for performance at the Olympic 1 September 1852. Title page is signed by W. Farren, manager. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that duelling scene in first act be omitted and that a phr...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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31 Aug 1852
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1 item

12136. Add MS 52933 K

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‘Mrs. Johnson’, farce in one act by ‘Hugo Vamp’ (i.e. J. R. O’Neill). Licence sent 19 July 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 26 July 1852. Title page signed by Wm. Sheridan Smith, manager, and the author. ‘Hugo Vamp’ also appears but is slightly obscured. Includes diagra...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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19 Jul 1852
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1 item

12137. Add MS 52936 H

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'Harlequin Cherry and the fair star, or, The green bird, the dancing waters and the singing tree', comic pantomime by George Ellis. Cover signed by manager. Licence sent 6 December 1852 for performance at the Princess's 27 December 1852. Extensive stage directions. Songs included in MS. Not...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1852
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1 item

12138. Add MS 52937 M

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‘The guardian spirit’, drama in three acts by 'Hugo Vamp' (i.e. J. R. O’Neill), ‘partially founded upon Paul de Kock’s celebrated novel The banker of Paris’. Licence sent 10 February 1853 for performance at the Marylebone. Title page signed both ‘Hugo Vamp’ and J. R. O’Neill. Elaborate sketch...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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10 Feb 1853
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1 item

12139. Add MS 52938 B

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'Life in Australia, from our own correspondent’, drama in three acts by Mrs. Alfred Phillips. Licence sent 17 February 1853 for performance at the Olympic 21 February 1853. Different types of paper suggest some revisions. Keywords: Ireland, festivals and celebration, working class characters...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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17 Feb 1853
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1 item

12140. 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