‘The factory girl’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 25 February 1852 for performance at the Bower Saloon 25 February 1852. Actresses’ names for two main parts listed with dramatis personae. Songs included in MS. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that the word ‘damned’ be omitt...
‘The Leghorn bonnet’, farce in one act. Licence sent 10 March 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, 10 March 1852. Title page instructs that the licence can be left for John Knowles of the Theatre Royal Manchester at 360 Oxford Street. Elaborate title page. For another vers...
‘Good night, Monsieur Pantalon’, comic operetta in one act, adapted from the French by Charles A. Somerset. Licence sent 9 March 1852 for performance at the Grecian Saloon 15 March 1852. Signature of the Grecian’s proprietor appears on title page. A number of songs are included in the MS. Ni...
‘The Corsicans, or, The brothers Salucarro’, drama in three acts by the Brothers Sala. Licence sent 9 March 1852 for performance at the Surrey 15 March 1852. Signed by Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. Red underlining of stage directions and speaking cues throughout some of the text. For other...
‘Lelia the betrothed, or, The Savoyard assassin’, drama in three acts by Henry Coleman. Licence sent 23 February 1852 for performance at the Marylebone 1 March 1852. H. Coleman’s signature appears on cover of act three. Keywords: Italian influence, aristocracy, street musicians, classical ci...
‘The Corsican brothers’, drama in three acts. Printed (Lacy’s, vol. 6, no. 79). Licence sent 19 March 1852 for performance at the Marylebone. Scrap of a playbill that lists title and ‘stage manager copy’ bound in with text. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that exclamations s...
‘The Hebrew son, or, The child of Babylon’ (‘Joseph and his brethren’), drama in three acts. Licence sought 11 March 1852 for performance at the Olympic, but refused on 13 March. According to LCO Day Book Add. 53703, the refusal of a licence was because the play was ‘merely a dramatic account o...
‘The trial of love, or, Self-devotion’, drama in five acts by G. W. Lovell. Licence sent 26 March 1852 for performance at the Princess’s 7 June 1852. For an earlier play under the same title, by G. Soane, see Add. 42883 (2). Keywords: English Civil War, political revolution, treason, Christi...