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12341. Add MS 52960 W

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Ireland as it is, drama in three acts by J. H. Amherst. Printed (n.d.). Licence sent 11 August 1856 for performance at the Adelphi 18 August 1856. Includes cast of characters, stage business, costumes, and relative positions on stage. Keywords: land and farming, Ireland, emigration, crime, ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1856
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1 item

12342. Add MS 52961 G

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‘Fate and its wonders! or, The idiot and the twin brothers’, drama in two acts, by A. Rayner. Licence sent 6 September 1856 for performance at the Victoria 8 September 1856. Request for licence signed Joseph Johnson Towers. Keywords: Italian characters, military, Russian imperialism, aristoc...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1856
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1 item

12343. Add MS 52965 D

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'Pride and poverty, or, The real poor of London', drama in two acts by Ben Barnett and J. B. Johnstone. Licence sent 3 March 1857 for performance at the Strand. Not listed in Nicoll. Keywords: London, poverty, working class characters, debt and its consequences, crime. ff. 15. Benjamin Bar...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
3 Mar 1857
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1 item

12344. Add MS 52967 AA

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'The life of a beggar', drama in three acts by W. Travers. Licence sent 13 August 1857 for performance at City of London 14 August 1857. Cover signed Messrs Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: festival and celebration, servants, death, poverty, poisoning, inheritance, murder, crime, fallen wom...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1857
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1 item

12345. Add MS 52969 F

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'The legend of the headless man, or, The spirit of good and evil', melodrama in three acts by B. J. Webster. Licence sent 14 November 1857 for performance at the Adelphi 16 November 1857. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that the words 'God' and 'damnation' be omitted. Keyword...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Nov 1857
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1 item

12346. Add MS 52991 C

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'B. B., or, The Benicia Boy', farce in one act by F. C. Burnand and M. Williams. Licence sent 19 March 1860 for performance at the Olympic. The script is based on the famous boxing match between Tom Sayers and the American John Heenan, known as 'the Benicia Boy', which took place on 17 April ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1860
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1 item

12347. Add MS 53003 Q

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'The Turkish bath', farce in one act by F. C. Burnand and M. Williams. Licence sent 26 April 1861 for performance at the Adelphi. Cuts and amendments in ink and pencil. Actors’ names listed next to dramatis personæ. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 51, no. 754. ff. 22. Montagu Williams, writer o...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1861
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1 item

12348. Add MS 53023 I

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'Easy shaving!', farce in one act by F. C. Burnand and M. Williams. Licence sent 12 June 1863 , no details of place of performance noted on script. The present MS prepared as prompt copy. Cues and cuts written in both pencil and ink. Actors' names in pencil next to dramatis personæ. MS writ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1863
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1 item

12349. Add MS 52933 J

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‘The devil’s in it’, opera in two acts , with libretto by Alfred Bunn. Licence sent 15 July 1852 for performance at the Surrey 21 July 1852. Letter from the stage manager requesting licence is bound with MS. Text written in two different hands; one using red ink to underline stage directions...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jul 1852
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1 item

12350. Add MS 52957 Q

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'Ye belle alliance, or, Harlequin and good humour and the field of the cloth of gold', pantomime by William Brough in collaboration with R. B. Brough. Licence sent 18 December 1855 for performance at Theatre Royal Covent Garden 26 December 1855. 'Proprietor. Mr John Henry Anderson' written on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Dec 1855
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1 item