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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 52929-53708 Name Reade, Charles, novelist and dramatist Level [40] File

1. Add MS 52931 AA

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‘The lost husband’, drama in two acts, adapted from the French by Charles Reade. Licence sent 23 April 1852 for performance at the Strand 26 April 1852. Title page lists W. R. Copeland as lessee. Small number of revisions, usually in pencil. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 6, no. 86. There were ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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23 Apr 1852
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1 item

2. Add MS 52931 O

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‘A village tale’ (‘Our country homes’), drama in three acts by Charles Reade. Licence sent 11 April 1852 for performance at the Strand 12 April 1852. Title page lists W. R. Copeland as lessee of the Strand Theatre. Songs included in MS. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that t...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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11 Apr 1852
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1 item

3. Add MS 52932 C

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‘Honor is before titles’ (‘Nobs and snobs’), drama in three acts by Charles Reade. Licence sent 30 April 1852 for performance at the Strand 30 April 1852. Inside cover lists ‘C. Read, Garrick Club, King St, Covent Garden.’ Another signature, possibly the theatre manager’s, appears on covers ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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30 Apr 1852
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1 item

4. Add MS 52935 BB

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'Masks and faces, or, Both sides of the curtain’, comedy in two acts. Licence sent 8 November 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 5 November 1852. Request for licence written and signed by Benjamin Webster. For a related play see Add. 52958 W. Keywords: cross-dressing, the...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
8 Nov 1852
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1 item

5. Add MS 52937 B

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‘Gold’, drama in five acts, by Charles Reade. Licence sent 5 January 1853 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 10 January 1853. Plays of the same title were performed in 1851 and 1880. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 11, no. 152, and in Dick’s Standard Plays, no. 1053, in 1896. ff. 92...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1853
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1 item

6. Add MS 52946 M

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'Two loves and a life', drama in four acts by 'John Roakes' (i.e., Tom Taylor) and Charles Reade. Licence sent 16 March 1854 for performance at the Adelphi 20 March 1854. Request for licence written and signed by Benjamin Webster. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation thatthat the ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1854
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1 item

7. Add MS 52947 A

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'Ben Bolt', drama in two acts. Licence sent 20 April 1854 for performance at the Standard. Signed by John Douglass, proprietor. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. For another version see Add. 52946 P. Keywords: peasants, food and dining, theatre, work...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1854
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1 item

8. Add MS 52948 A

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'The courier of Lyons' ('The Lyons mail' al. 'The courier of Lyons, or, The attack upon the mail'), romantic drama in three acts by Charles Reade, translated and adapted from the play by L. I. E. Lemoine-Moreau, E. de Girardin, and A. C. Lartigue. Licence sent 15 June 1854 for performance at t...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1854
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1 item

9. Add MS 52949 M

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'The king's rival', drama in five acts by 'John Roakes' (i.e., Tom Taylor) and Charles Reade. Licence sent 16 September 1854 for performance at the St. James’s 25 September 1854. Signed by Laura Seymour. Revisions throughout. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that a passage ab...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1854
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1 item

10. Add MS 52952 H

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'The double marriage', drama in five acts by Charles Reade. Licence sent 8 January 1855 for performance at the St. James’s. Signed by Laura Seymour. 'Charles Read, Esqre., Garrick Club, King Street, Covent Garden' written inside front cover. 'J. Saunders, Copyist, 41 Church Road, Commercial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jan 1855
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1 item