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1. Add MS 53047 A-AA

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Add MS 53047 A-AA
Title:
Lord Chamberlain's Plays: December 1865. (Box 168).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1865
Extent:
27 items (26 plays and 1 index).

2. Add MS 53047 AA

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Add MS 53047 AA
Title:
Index.
Scope & Content:
List of plays submitted to the Lord Chamberlain's Office during December 1865, together with the names of the theatres of intended representation. Note that Add MS 53047 T, the untitled play from this run, is not recorded in this index.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1865
Extent:
1 folio.

3. Add MS 53047 T

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Add MS 53047 T
Title:
Untitled play.
Scope & Content:
The play appears to be missing its cover sheet, the title not being noted on the script as it stands. The theatre of intended performance is noted as Sadler's Wells on folio 1 and the opening of scene 1 is headed 'Haunt of the Manikins and Wideawake Hollow, in the Island of Spring'. The play is n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1865
Extent:
30 folios.

4. Add MS 53047 C

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Add MS 53047 C
Title:
'Remember the grotto!, or, Harlequin's rehersal'.
Scope & Content:
Described in the LCO Day Book (Add MS 53703) as a 'Christmas entertainment'. Licence sent 13 December 1865 for performance at the St James's. Comic scene included separately on folios 3 and 4. The name of the dramatist is not noted on the script and the only play of this title recorded in Nicoll ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1865
Extent:
20 folios.

5. Add MS 53047 B

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Add MS 53047 B
Title:
'Whitington and his cat', by C. Horsman.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 13 December 1865 for performance at the Queen's Theatre, Manchester. The name J. B. Egan noted beside the details of the theatre on folio 1. A letter from Egan to W. B. Donne, dated 9 December [1865], apologising for the lateness in submitting the play, included on folio ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1865
Extent:

23 folios.

6. Add MS 53047 R

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Add MS 53047 R
Title:
'Harlequin and the wild boar of Bradford, or, Roger of Mannyngham and the fairies'.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 22 December 1865 for performance at the Alexandra Theatre, Bradford. The name of the dramatist is not noted on the script and Nicoll lists the play as author unknown.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1865
Extent:
24 folios

7. Add MS 53047 E

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Add MS 53047 E
Title:
'King Chess, or, Tom the piper's son and See-Saw Margery Daw'.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 16 December 1865 for performance at the Surrey. The name Mr R. Shepherd [Richard Shepherd] noted above the name of the theatre on folio 59. Comic scenes included separetely between folios 59-93. The MS is in two hands and contains numerous amendments throughout. The name o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1865
Extent:
93 folios.

8. Add MS 53047 V

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Add MS 53047 V
Title:
'Master of Ravenswood', by J. P. Simpson.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 23 December 1865 for performance at the Lyceum. The name of the dramatist is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to J. P. Simpson, noting further that the music was provided by W. H. Montgomery. The drama is based on the novel The Bride of Lam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1865
Extent:

125 folios.

9. Add MS 53047 X

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Add MS 53047 X
Title:
'Behind time', by B. Webster, the younger.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 26 December 1865 for performance at the Adelphi. The name B. Webster [Benjamin Webster] noted above the details of the theatre on folio 1.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1865
Extent:

33 folios.

10. Add MS 53047 O

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Add MS 53047 O
Title:
'Jack Straw and King Nunky Flunkey, or, Harlequin cock a doodle doo and the funny old woman of Lambeth Walk'.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 21 December 1865 for performance at the Bower. The name of the dramatist is not noted on the script and Nicoll, listing the play under the title 'Jack Straw King Munkey Punkey', lists the author as unknown.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1865
Extent:
18 folios.