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

291. Add MS 52939 H

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'The preux chevalier, or, The peer and the peasant' ('The days of Louis 15th'), comedy in three acts. Licence sent 12 April 1853 for performance at the Surrey 12 April 1853. Keywords: Pre-Revolutionary France, aristocracy, adultery, French influence, gambling, execution, treason. ff. 54. Lo...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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12 Apr 1853
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292. Add MS 52939 I

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'Macbeth travestie’, burlesque in two acts by — Malone. Licence sent 16 April 1853 for performance at the Strand 18 April 1853. Signature on title page. Songs included in MS. Stage directions and revisions in pencil. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 flags the lines 'Like the French President you ca...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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16 Apr 1853
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293. Add MS 52939 J

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'Three to one, or, The forget-me-not’, original comic vaudeville in one act. Licence sent 16 April 1853 for performance at the Strand 18 April 1853. Signature on title page. Songs included in MS. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that one instance of 'by Jesus' be omitted. Ke...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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16 Apr 1853
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1 item

294. Add MS 52939 K

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'Uncle Crotchet’, a farce in one act by Mrs. Alfred Phillips. Licence sent 18 April 1853 for performance at the Olympic 18 April 1853. Signed by manager, W. Farren. Published in Lacy's, vol. 10, no. 145. Keywords: American characters, black characters, slavery and abolition, domestic violen...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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18 Apr 1853
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295. Add MS 52939 L

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'A.S.S.', a farce in one act by J. M. Maddox. Licence sent 19 April 1853 for performance at the Lyceum 23 April 1853. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 10, no. 148. For another version, under the title ‘A. H., my daughter’s intended’, see Add. 52935 N. Keywords: art and artists, family relationships...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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19 Apr 1853
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1 item

296. Add MS 52939 M

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The respectable man, comedy in three acts. Printed (circa 1853). Licence sent 19 April 1853 for performance at the Soho Theatre 23 April 1853. 'Soho Theatre, Mr. Mowbray, Lessee, Fee paid' written on title page. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that a number of words and phra...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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19 Apr 1853
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1 item

297. Add MS 52939 N

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'In for a dig, or, Life at the diggings’, comic drama in one act by ‘Hugo Vamp’ (i.e., J. R. O'Neill). Licence sent 20 April 1853 for performance at Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre 25 April 1853. Title page signed by Lessee and Manager Mr William Cooke. Revisions and diagrams and elaborate stage...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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20 Apr 1853
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1 item

298. Add MS 52939 O

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'The will and the way, or, The khan and the countryman’, domestic romantic drama in two acts by G. D. Pitt. Licence sent 22 April 1853 for performance at the Pavilion 25 April 1853. Request for licence written and signed by J. C. Morgan, Prompter for the Lessee. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 recor...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
22 Apr 1853
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1 item

299. Add MS 52939 P

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'A fast train! High pressure!! Express!!!', farce in one act by John Medex Maddox. Licence sent 25 April 1853 for performance at the Lyceum 29 April 1853. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that 'Lord' be substituted with 'Heaven.' Published in Lacy's, vol. 10, no. 149, with the...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1853
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1 item

300. Add MS 52939 Q

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‘The will and the way’, drama in three acts by Joseph Bedworth. Licence sent 25 April 1853 for performance at Birmingham 25 April 1853. Revisions throughout. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that the name 'Lord Yarmouth' be omitted as well as all oaths, and that 'God' be subst...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1853
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1 item