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21. Add MS 52930 N

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‘Timoleon’, tragedy in five acts by R. W. Jameson. Licence sent 9 March 1852 for performance at the Adelphi, Edinburgh 9 March 1852. Title page states that play is the property of Robert Henry Wyndham, sent to Lord Chamberlain via Henry Butler, London theatrical agent. Text very elaborately ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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9 Mar 1852
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1 item

22. Add MS 52930 E

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‘Dick Fly by Night and Dare Devil Dan, or, The leap for life’, drama in two acts by H. Young. Licence sent 26 February 1852 for performance at the Bower Saloon 3 March 1852. Title page contains a list of plays by the same author, including ‘Aminta’ (Add. 52929 E). Keywords: crime, poverty, d...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1852
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1 item

23. Add MS 52930 K

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‘My lover the captain’, farce in one act by J. Edward Thompson. Licence sent 5 March 1852 for performance at the Strand 8 March 1852. Keywords: suburbs, doctors and medicine, science and technology, servants, military, nautical drama, Egypt, disguise, children, cross-dressing, poverty ff. 14. ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1852
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1 item

24. Add MS 52930 X

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‘The bottle imp, or, Spirits in bond’, burlesque in one act by W. P. Hale and Francis Talfourd. Licence sent 17 March 1852 for performance at the Grecian Saloon 12 April 1852. Songs included in MS. Manager’s signature appears on last page. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation tha...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
17 Mar 1852
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1 item

25. Add MS 52930 B

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Le cachemire vert, ‘comédie’ in one act by Alexandre Dumas père and Eugène Nus. Printed (1851). French. Licence sent 26 February 1852 for performance at the St. James’s. Manager: John Mitchell. Original first performance at the Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique 15 December 1849. Bound in what...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Feb 1852
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1 item

26. Add MS 52930 M

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‘James the Sixth, or, The Gowrie plot’, tragedy in five acts by the Rev. James White. Licence sent 5 March 1852 for performance at Sadler’s Wells 6 March 1852. Paper of different sizes used for different acts. Keywords: military, Scottish characters, political revolution, English Civil War, ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1852
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1 item

27. Add MS 52930 G

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‘No. 3 Fig Tree Court, Temple, or, Us and our clerks’, farce in one act by ‘John Roakes’ (i.e., Tom Taylor). Licence sent 26 February 1852 for performance at the Princess’s 6 March 1852. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 6, no. 80. Keywords: lodgers and boarding houses, law and the legal profession,...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1852
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1 item

28. Add MS 52930 Y

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‘The Corsican brothers’, ‘legendary drama in three acts dramatised from A. Dumas’s romance Les Frères Corses by E. Grangé and Xavier de Montépin. Translated and adapted to the English stage by Charles Webb. Printed from the acting copy with remarks [ … ] by D – G-.’ Printed (Cumberland’s Brit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1852
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1 item