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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 52929-53708 Name Gilbert, William Schwenck, Knight, playwright, 1836-1911 Level [40] File

1. Add MS 53056 F

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Add MS 53056 F
Title:
'The elixir of love', by W. S. Gilbert.
Scope & Content:
Extravaganza. Licence sent 18 December 1866 for performance at the St James's. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) lists the play with the title 'The elixir of life' but adds a note to the effect that the title was subsequently changed to 'Dulcamara, or, The little duck and the great quack'. The name of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1866
Extent:
24 folios.

2. Add MS 53056 Y

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Add MS 53056 Y
Title:
'Hushaby baby on the tree top', by C. Millward and W. S. Gilbert.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 26 December 1866 for performance at Astley's. A note from Mr Liston, acting manager, to the Lord Chamberlain's Office and dated 24 December 1866 introduces the play on folio 2. Comic scenes contained separately in folios 45-56. The names of the dramatists are not recorded...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1866
Extent:

56 folios.

3. Add MS 53060 J

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Add MS 53060 J
Title:
'Robinson Crusoe', by W. S. Gilbert, H. J. Byron, T. Hood, H. S. Leigh and A Sketchley
Scope & Content:
Burlesque. Licence sent 29 June 1867 for performance at the Haymarket. Nicoll attributes the play to W. S. Gilbert, H. J. Byron, T. Hood, H. S. Leigh and A. Sketchley, although the names of the dramatists are not recorded on the script.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1867
Extent:

34 folios.

4. Add MS 53062 W

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Add MS 53062 W
Title:
'Allow me to explain', by W. S. Gilbert.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 29 October 1867 for performance at the Prince of Wales's. The name C. J. James [Charles James James] noted on folio 1, together with the date of intended performance - Saturday 2 November 1867.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1867
Extent:

18 folios.

5. Add MS 53063 Q

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Add MS 53063 Q
Title:
'Highly improbable', by W. S. Gilbert.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 30 November 1867 for performance at the Royalty. A letter, dated 29th Nov [1867] to William Bodham Donne, Examiner of Plays, introducing the play and featuring a stamp at the top: 'Royalty Theatre. Black Susan', on folio 1. The address of Mr Gilbert is noted as '28...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1867
Extent:

33 folios.

6. Add MS 53064 Q

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Add MS 53064 Q
Title:
'Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren, or, Fortunatus and the water of life. The three bears! The three gifts!! The three wishes!!! and the little man who woo'd the little maid', by W. S. Gilbert.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 24 December 1864 for performance at the Lyceum. MS contains considerable annotations and amendments throughout. Printed playbill giving the names of the cast members for the Harlequinade on folio 42. The name of the author is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1867
Extent:

42 folios.

7. Add MS 53065 F

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Add MS 53065 F
Title:
La Vivandiere: True to the Corps!, by W. S. Gilbert.
Scope & Content:
Operatic extravaganza founded on Donizetti's opera 'La Giglia del Regimento'. Licence sent 18 January 1868 for performance at the Queen's. Printed by Matthews Brothers, Liverpool. (1867). W.S. Gilbert noted as the author of 'Dulcamara, or, the Little Duck and the Great Quack' on folio 1, togethe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1868
Extent:

18 folios.

8. Add MS 53066 N

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Add MS 53066 N
Title:
'The merry Zingara, or, The tipsy gipsy and the pipsy wipsy', by W. S. Gilbert.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque in one act. Licence sent 17 March 1868 for performance at the Royalty. An alternative title, 'Devilshoof', has been crossed through on folio 2. The title, and notes relating to the various scenes on folio 2 are in a different hand to the rest of the script. The MS contains considerable...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1868
Extent:

48 folios.

9. Add MS 53073 D

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Add MS 53073 D
Title:
'Robert le Diable, or, The nun, the dun and the son of a gun', by W. S. Gilbert.
Scope & Content:
Extravaganza. Licence sent 9 December 1868 for performance at the Gaiety. The original title, 'Robert the Devil', has been crossed through on folio 1. Adapted from the opera by G. Meyerbeer. The attribution to W. S. Gilbert is taken from Nicoll, the name of the dramatist not being noted on the sc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1868
Extent:
45 folios.

10. Add MS 53075 H

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Add MS 53075 H
Title:
'No cards', by W. S. Gilbert.
Scope & Content:
Musical comedietta in one act. Licence sent 24 March 1869 for performance at the Gallery of Illustration. The date of intended production noted as Monday 29 March 1869 on folio 1. Nicoll notes the music as by L. Elliott.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1869
Extent:

16 folios.

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