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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 52929-53708 Name Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London Level [40] File

1. 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
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8 Nov 1852
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1 item

2. Add MS 52936 P

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'Leo the terrible, a fable for the present day', burlesque. Licence sent 18 December 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 27 December 1852. Request for licence written and signed by Benjamin Webster. Written in a number of different hands and on a number of different papers....
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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18 Dec 1852
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1 item

3. Add MS 52953 A

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'The secret agent', comedy in two acts by J. S. Coyne. Licence sent 2 March 1855 for performance at the Haymarket 5 March 1855. Request for licence written and signed by J. B. Buckstone. Revisions throughout. Some revisions pasted in. Several different types of paper used. Published in La...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
2 Mar 1855
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1 item

4. Add MS 52953 S

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'The new (Hay-) market spring meeting', extravaganza in one act by J. R. Planché. Licence sent 31 March 1855 for performance at the Haymarket 9 April 1855. Request for licence written and signed by J. B. Buckstone. Songs included in MS. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 22, no. 317. Keywords: thea...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1855
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1 item

5. Add MS 52954 F

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'The actress of Padua', play in four acts by John Brougham. Licence sent 3 May 1855 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 4 May 1855. First performed at the Broadway, New York 12 May 1852. Request for licence written and signed by J. B. Buckstone. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records t...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
3 May 1855
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1 item

6. Add MS 52954 H

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Berta; a legend of the Hartzberg, comic opera in two acts by Hawley Smart. Printed. Licence sent 4 May 1855 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 7 May 1855. Request for licence written and signed by J. B. Buckstone. Keywords: Germany, mountain settings, festivals and celebration,...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1855
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1 item

7. Add MS 52954 Q

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'Only a halfpenny', farce in one act by John Oxenford. Licence sent 31 May 1855 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 31 May 1855. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 22, no. 329. Keywords: festivals and celebration, ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
31 May 1855
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1 item

8. Add MS 52954 R

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Love's martyrdom, play in five acts by John Saunders. Printed (1854). Licence sent 4 June 1855 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 6 June 1855. Request for licence written and signed by J. B. Buckstone. There are handwritten revisions throughout, as well as those added on separat...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jun 1855
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1 item

9. Add MS 52954 Z

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'Buckstone's adventure with a Polish princess', original farce in one act by 'Slingsby Lawrence, Esq.' [i.e. G. H. Lewes]. Licence sent 29 June 1855 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 4 July 1855. 'G. H. Lewes, 7 Clarence Row, East Sheen, Surrey' appears on title page. Some revis...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
29 Jun 1855
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1 item

10. Add MS 52955 C

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'Wife or no wife', play in five acts. License sent 16 July 1855 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 23 July 1855. Request for licence written and signed by J. B. Buckstone. Not listed in Nicoll. Keywords: aristocracy, French influence, elopement. ff. 46. London; Secular Instituti...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jul 1855
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1 item