Drama in a prologue and three acts. Licence sent 23 March 1864 for performance at the Victoria. MS in two different hands. The play was also published by Lacy's (vol 92).
Stradella, libretto edited and translated by M. Maggioni.
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Romantic opera in three acts. Licence sent 7 June 1864 for performance at Covent Garden. Printed by J. Milnes & Co. 105 Wardour Street, Oxford Street. (n.d.). Italian with parallel English text. The names of the orchestra members are noted on folio 2v, with a dramatis personae with the names...
Drama in one act. Licence sent 11 August 1866 for performance at the Grecian. Mr B. O. Conquest [Benjamin Oliver Conquest] noted as the actual and responsible manager on folio 1, together with the date of intended production - Monday 13 August 1866. Nicoll lists the play as author unknown.
'Malaeska, the Indian wife of the white hunter', by H. Loydall.
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Drama in two acts. Licence sent 20 October 1866 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Warrington. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for all oaths and the line 'By the Lord that made me' to be omitted. Nicoll lists the play as author unknown.
Described as 'a dramatic absurdity'. Licence sent 8 March 1867 for performance at Drury Lane. Printed (n.d.). The script consists of printed pages cut out and pasted to larger sheets of paper. Folio 1 is manuscript and lists the title and proposed place of performance.
'Faust, or, Marguerite's mangle', by C. H. Hazlewood.
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Described as 'a musical, magical, comical, diabolical burlesque extravaganza' on folio 1. Licence sent 13 March 1867 for performance at the Britannia. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for certain passages relating to Mephistopheles' claim to have deceived Eve be omitted in performance. The attri...
Comic scenes for 'Valentine and Orson', by C. L. Kenney.
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Pantomime comic scenes by Carl Rowella, clown, to accompany the play 'Valentine and Orson' by C. L. Kenny. For performance at the Holborne. A note, dated Saturday 21 December 1867, to W. B. Donne from J. B. Bennett, stage director, introducing the scenes is included on folio 1.
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 21 January 1868 for performance at the Surrey. Messrs Shepherd and Creswick noted as the theatre managers on folio 1. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to T. J. Williams with the title corrected to 'The peep-show m...