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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 52929-53708 Level [40] File

111. Add MS 52932 X

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‘Alice May, or, The last appeal’, domestic drama in two acts by Edward Fitzball. Licence sent 12 June 1852 for performance at the Surrey 21 June 1852. Title page lists Mssrs. Shepard and Creswick. According to Nicoll, published in Lacy’s and Duncombe’s, but neither reference has been verifie...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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12 Jun 1852
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1 item

112. Add MS 52932 Y

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‘The foundlings’, comic drama in five acts by J. B. Buckstone. Licence sent 15 June 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 16 June 1852. Request for licence written on title-page is unsigned, but in a hand that appears to be Benjamin Webster’s. Keywords: orphans, illegitimacy, ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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15 Jun 1852
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1 item

113. Add MS 52932 Z

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Index. ff. 2.
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1852
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1 item

114. Add MS 52933 A

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Emilia Galotti, tragedy in five acts by G. E. Lessing. Printed (1844). German. Licence sent 21 June 1852 for performance at the St. James’s. A play of the same title by F. Holcroft was performed in 1805. Keywords: aristocracy, family relationships, murder. ff. 50. Gotthold Ephraim Lessin...
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Western Manuscripts
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German
Date Range:
21 Jun 1852
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1 item

115. Add MS 52933 AA

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‘Young husbands’, comedy in two acts by ‘John Daly’ (i.e. John Daly Besemeres). Licence sent 24 August 1852 for performance at Sadler’s Wells 30 August 1852. Text written in a number of different hands. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that oaths and the words ‘Lord bless me’ ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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24 Aug 1852
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1 item

116. Add MS 52933 B

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‘The bag of gold’, drama in two acts by J. Hillyard. Licence sent 21 June 1852 for performance at the Olympic 25 June 1852. Signed by manager, W. Farren. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that a number of words and short phrases be omitted. Keywords: working class characters, p...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1852
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1 item

117. Add MS 52933 BB

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‘The life of a betting boy, or, His widow’s hope and a lover’s fear’, drama in two acts by H. Young. Licence sent 25 August 1852 for performance at the Bower Saloon 25 August 1852. Title page annotated and initialled by the Examiner of Plays, W. B. Donne, ‘One scene was directed to be struck ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
25 Aug 1852
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1 item

118. Add MS 52933 C

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‘A novel expedient’, farce in one act by B. N. Webster. Licence sent 25 June 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 26 June 1852. Request for licence unsigned, but apparently in the author’s hand, as is part of the text itself. Performed as ‘Book the third, chapter the first’, ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1852
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1 item

119. Add MS 52933 CC

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‘The master passion’, comedy in two acts by Mrs. Alfred Philips. Licence sent 31 August 1852 for performance at the Olympic 1 September 1852. Title page is signed by W. Farren, manager. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that duelling scene in first act be omitted and that a phr...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1852
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1 item

120. Add MS 52933 D

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‘Butcher versus baker’, farce in one act by Francis Talfourd. Licence sent 26 June 1852 for performance at the Olympic 28 June 1852. Signed by manager, William Farren. Keywords: working men’s associations, working class characters, philanthropy, family relationships. ff. 11. Francis Talfou...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jun 1852
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1 item