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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 53090 A-W Level [40] File

11. Add MS 53090 K

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Title:
'East Lynne', by A. Dampier.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 25 November 1870 for performance at the Alfred (formerly, and subsequently, the Marylebone). The author's name is noted on folio 21. Penny Red stamp on folio 53v. The play is listed as author unknown in Nicoll.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1870
Extent:

53 folios.

12. Add MS 53090 L

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Title:
'Écarté', by Lord Newry.
Scope & Content:
Drama in four acts. Licence sent 30 November 1870 for performance at the Globe. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for all oaths, the exclamations 'Lord' and 'God', and allusions to the Prince of Wales be omitted. The name of the author is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1870
Extent:

136 folios.

13. Add MS 53090 M

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Title:
Jezebel, or, The Dead Reckoning, by D. Boucicault.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 30 November 1870 for performance at the Holborn. Printed (n.d.). No author or title noted on the script and the index to this box of plays (Add MS 53090 W) simply lists the production as 'A drama in three acts (no title)'. The LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704), however...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1870
Extent:
44 folios.

14. Add MS 53090 N

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Title:
'Le petit de la bonne'.
Scope & Content:
Folie-vaudeville in one act. Licence sent 1 December 1870 for performance at the Opera Comique. Folio 26 contains a drawing of the stage layout while folio 27 contains a plot outline to another play with the title 'Les trois gamins'. No details of the author are noted on the script.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Dec 1870
Extent:
27 folios.

15. Add MS 53090 O

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Title:
'The elixir of love'.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque. Licence sent 1 December 1870 for performance at the Opera Comique. The name of the author is not noted on the script. Nicoll lists the play under the title 'the elixir of life' but again with no author being cited.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1870
Extent:
16 folios.

16. Add MS 53090 P

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Title:
'The man loaded with mischief, or, King Cricket and Polly put the kettle on', by F. Marchant.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 12 December 1870 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. The comic scenes are included separately between folios 13-18. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to F. Marchant.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1870
Extent:

18 folios.

17. Add MS 53090 Q

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Title:
'Faust in a fog', by R. Reece.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque. Licence sent 5 December 1870 for performance at the King's Cross. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for the 'objectionable final song' and the announcement of the can can dance to be omitted. The attribution of the play to R. Reece is taken from Nicoll, the name of the dramatist not be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1870
Extent:

9 folios.

18. Add MS 53090 R

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Title:
'Whittington and his cat'.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 13 December 1870 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Bradford. The name of the author is not noted on the script and Nicoll lists the play as author unknown.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1870
Extent:
50 folios.

19. Add MS 53090 S

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Title:
'Herne the hunter, or, Harlequin the demon oak and the maid, the monarch and the young mischief', by G. Conquest and H. Spry.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 17 December 1870 for performance at the Grecian. Mr B. O. Conquest [Benjamin Oliver Conquest] noted as the responsible manager on folio 1.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1870
Extent:

29 folios.

20. Add MS 53090 T

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Title:
'Dame Trot, or, Harlequin, babes in the wood, and lost Little Red Riding Hood', by G. H. George.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 17 December 1870 for performance at the Oriental. M. Abrahams noted as the responsible manager of the theatre on folio 1 together with the date of the intended performance - Saturday 24 December 1870. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for one passage of a suggestive nature...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1870
Extent:

35 folios.