List of plays submitted to the Lord Chamberlain's Office during late September, October and early November 1868, together with the names of the theatres of intended representation.
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 29 October 1868 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. The name of the author is not recorded on the script and no play of this title is noted in Nicoll for 1868, however a play called 'The Emerald Queen' by W. Tra...
'Check and Checkmate, or, The resources of Rudolph the Hungarian'.
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Drama in three acts. Licence sent 23 September 1868 for performance at the Grecian. The name of the dramatist is not noted on the script and Nicoll lists the play as author unknown.
Drama in five acts. Licence sent 19 October 1868 for performance at the Adelphi. The name Mr Benjamin Webster noted on folio 1. Printed by C. Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand (1868). The play is based on the romance by Alexandre Dumas.
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 25 September 1868 for performance at the Prince of Wales's. The name C. J. James [Charles James James] noted on folio 1. The play is listed as author unknown in Nicoll.
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 29 October 1868 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. The name of the author is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to F. Charlton and gives the title as 'The alchemist of Modena, or, The wrong...
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 25 September 1868 for performance at Drury Lane. An adaptation of Walter Scott's The Fortunes of Nigel, by the Scottish journalist and dramatist Andrew Halliday (1830-1877). Although Halliday's name does not appear on this LCP playscript, he is credited in press...
Drama in a prologue and three acts. Licence sent 29 September 1868 for performance at the Alfred. The name of the author is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to C. H. Stephenson.
Farce in one act. Licence sent 25 September 1868 for performance at the Surrey. Messrs Shepherd and Creswick, lessees of the theatre, mentioned on folio 1. The name of the author is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to G. S. Hodgson.