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12381. Add MS 53068 J

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Add MS 53068 J
Title:
La Belle Hélène, by H. Meilhac and L. Halévy; English translation by C. L. Kenney.
Scope & Content:
Comic opera in three acts with music by J. Offenbach. Licence sent 5 May 1868 for performance at the St James's. Printed by Chappell & Co, New Bond Street (n.d.). Dramatis personae with the names of the performers on folio 3. French with parallel English text. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) ask...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
May 1868
Extent:

54 folios.

12382. Add MS 52960 I

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Add MS 52960 I
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Rosamunda, tragedy in five acts, by Vittorio Alfieri. Printed (1856). Italian with English translation by Thomas Williams. Licence sent 27 June 1856 for performance at the Lyceum. ‘Represented at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, by Madame Ristori and an Italian dramatic company, June 1856’: see al...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
27 Jun 1856
Extent:
1 item

12383. Add MS 52939 C

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Add MS 52939 C
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Les contes de la Reine de Navarre, la revanche de Pavie, comédie in five acts by A. E. Scribe and A. Legouvé. Printed (1850). French. Licence sent 5 April 1853 for performance at the St. James’s. Original first performance at Théâtre Français 15 October 1850. Signed by J. Mitchell. Publis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
5 Apr 1853
Extent:
1 item

12384. Add MS 52950 O

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Add MS 52950 O
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Un mari qui prend du ventre, comédie-vaudeville in one act by ‘MM. Labiche et Marc-Michel’ (i.e., E. Labiche and M. A. A. Michel). Printed (Paris; Bibliothèque dramatique; théâtre moderne, 1854). French. Licence sent 6 November 1854 for performance at the Soho 9 November 1854. Original firs...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
6 Nov 1854
Extent:
1 item

12385. Add MS 52950 P

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Add MS 52950 P
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Sous un bec de gaz, scenes de la vie nocturne en une nuit, vaudeville in one act by ‘MM. Ch. Cabot, A. de Jallais et Lelarge’ (i.e. Charles Cabot, Amédée de Jallais, and Léon Lalarge). Printed (1854). French. Licence sent 6 November 1854 for performance at the Soho the same day. Original fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
6 Nov 1854
Extent:
1 item

12386. Add MS 52960 T

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Add MS 52960 T
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‘Our wife! or, The rose of Amiens’, drama in two acts by J. M. Morton. Licence sent 14 August 1856 for performance at the Princess’s 18 November 1856. Songs included in MS. Keywords: French influence, dance, fashion, aristocracy. ff. 34. Charles A. Somerset, dramatist: Birmingham; City of....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Aug 1856
Extent:
1 item

12387. Add MS 53004 G

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Add MS 53004 G
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'Truth and fiction', drama in two acts by T. J. Williams and A. G. Harris. Licence sent 17 May 1861 for performance at the Princess's on 18 May. Signed A. Harris, lessee. Actors’ names listed next to dramatis personæ. Cuts, amendments and stage manager's cues in pencil and ink. Cues underl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17 May 1861
Extent:
1 item

12388. Add MS 53022 R

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Add MS 53022 R
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'The wooden spoon maker', drama in one act. Licence sent 9 May 1863 for performance at the Adelphi. Name of B. Webster, the theatre manager, noted on script. Nicoll attributes title to Andrew Halliday and William Brough. ff. 15. Andrew Halliday Duff, called 'Andrew Halliday'; essayist an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1863
Extent:
1 item

12389. Add MS 53043 A

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Add MS 53043 A
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'Brother Sam', by J. Oxenford, E. A. Southern and J. B. Buckstone.
Scope & Content:
Comedy in three acts. Licence sent 22 May 1865 for performance at the Haymarket. MS in several hands. The attribution of the play to Oxenford, Southern and Buckstone is taken from Nicoll, the names of the dramatists not being noted on the script.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1865
Extent:

101 folios.

12390. Add MS 52949 M

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Add MS 52949 M
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'The king's rival', drama in five acts by 'John Roakes' (i.e., Tom Taylor) and Charles Reade. Licence sent 16 September 1854 for performance at the St. James’s 25 September 1854. Signed by Laura Seymour. Revisions throughout. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that a passage ab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1854
Extent:
1 item