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12141. Add MS 52939 E

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'Mohammed’, drama in two acts altered and arranged by Mr Kean Buchanan from Geo. Miles (of Baltimore, USA) tragedy of the same name (sic). Licence sent 8 April 1853 for performance at the Pavilion 8 April 1853. 'Examiner of Plays, 38 Dean Street, Soho' written on title page. Keywords: Muslims ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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8 Apr 1853
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1 item

12142. Add MS 52939 Z

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'The mousetrap’, comedy in three acts by Rev. James White. Licence sent 9 May 1853 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 14 May 1853. Request for licence written and signed by John Baldwin Buckstone. Keywords: orphans, family relationships, age and ageing, gypsies, law and the lega...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
9 May 1853
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1 item

12143. Add MS 52940 K

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'Bleak House', drama in two acts by James Elphinstone and Frederic Neale. Licence sent 1 June 1853 for performance at the City of London 6 June 1853. Signed by Austin Lee. For other versions see Add. 52940 M, a version by an unnamed author from 1854, by G. Lander from 1876, by E. Thorne from...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1 Jun 1853
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1 item

12144. Add MS 52941 M

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'Sardanapalus, or, The fast king of Assyria', burlesque in one act by G. Abbott à Beckett and Mark Lemon. Licence sent 16 July 1853 for performance at the Adelphi 21 July 1853. Request for licence written and signed by Benjamin Webster. Keywords: aristocracy, polygamy, literature and literar...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
16 Jul 1853
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1 item

12145. Add MS 52942 D

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'A model husband', farce in one act. Licence sent 6 September 1853 for performance at Sadlers Wells. Title page is signed. Corrections in blue ink. Keywords: servants, food and dining, family relationships, Devon, military. ff. 30. London. Secular Institutions. Theatres. Sadler's Wells Th...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1853
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1 item

12146. Add MS 52942 E

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'Sold to advantage!', farce in one act adapted from the French. Licence sent 7 September 1853 for performance at Sadlers Wells 7 November 1853. Title page signed by J. Wooler. For another version see Add. 52929 B. Keywords: theatre, the press, doctors and medicine, disfigurement. ff. 41. L...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
7 Sep 1853
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1 item

12147. Add MS 52942 O

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'The discarded son', drama in three acts by B. N. Webster. Licence sent 5 October 1853 for performance at the Adelphi 6 October 1853. Request for licence written and signed by Benjamin Webster. Songs included in MS. Text written in more than one hand. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the st...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Oct 1853
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1 item

12148. Add MS 52943 U

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'Love's alarms', opera in one act by J. B. Buckstone (music by E. F. Fitzwilliam). Licence sent 14 November 1853 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 17 November 1853. Revisions, songs, stage directions and diagrams included. Keywords: aristocracy, military, bachelors, castles. f...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
14 Nov 1853
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1 item

12149. Add MS 52944 M

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'Harlequin and Tom Thumb, or, Gog and Magog and Mother Gooses golden goslings' (sic), pantomime. Licence sent 20 December 1853 for performance at Sadlers Wells 26 December 1853. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that a number of political allusions be omitted. Keywords: harlequ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
20 Dec 1853
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1 item

12150. Add MS 52947 I

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'Knights of the round table', drama in five acts. Licence sent 15 May 1854 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 20 May 1854. Signed by J. B. Buckstone. Keywords: gambling, London, gypsies, food and dining, drinking and drunkenness, aristocracy, Restoration England, military, treas...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1854
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1 item