‘What will he do with it?’, drama in three acts by F. L. Phillips. Licence sent 17 October 1859 for performance at the Surrey. Bound in newspaper. Based on the novel ‘What will he do with it’ by ‘Pisistratus Caxton’ (i.e., Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton), Leipzig, 1857 in four volumes, republished...
‘The patriot spy’, drama in three acts by F. L. Phillips. Licence sent 31 October 1859 for performance at the Surrey. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that 'Heaven' be substituted for 'God'. Keywords: Flanders, Brussels, Ghent, nobility, Spanish characters, Inquisition, balls,...
'A day at Boulogne, or, Run to earth' (Run to earth, or, A day at Boulogne), farce in one act by Marshall Hall. Licence sent 4 February 1860 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Brighton. Title pasted over the original title. Published as Run to earth, or, A day at Boulogne in Lacy's, suppl...
'Caught in a trap', comedy in three acts by Henry Holl. Licence sent 8 February 1860 for performance at the Princess's. Name of A. Harris [Augustus Glossop Harris], the theatre manager, noted on cover. MS written in more than one hand. Keywords: Spanish characters and setting, Toledo, trave...
'Life for life, or, The burden of guilt', drama in two acts by C. H. Hazlewood. Licence sent 13 August 1860 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted on the cover as proprietor of the theatre. Keywords: gypsies, inns, cards, drinking and drunkenness, Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge, ga...
'Col. Jack', drama in two acts by E. Towers. Licence sent 15 November 1860 for performance at the Victoria on 19 November. Note of application for licence signed I. Cohen for J. Johnson Towers, the theatre manager. The character of Colonel Jack is possibly derived from Daniel Defoe's The his...
'The romance of a poor young man', drama in two acts by Lester Wallack. Licence sent 21 November 1860 for performance at the Queen's on 24 November. First produced at Wallack's, New York, 24 January, 1860. Signed C. J. James. Cues underlined in red ink. Adapted from Le roman d'un jeune homm...
'Bianca the bravo's bride', opera in four acts by J. P. Simpson, music by W. H. Balfe. Licence sent 5 December 1860 for performance at Covent Garden on 6 December 1860. Signed by W. Harrison, manager. Published as Bianca, the Bravo's bride: a grand and original legendary opera (1860), and ba...
'Willy Reilly and his own dear Cooleen Bawn', drama in one act by J. F. O'Neill. Licence sent 29 April 1861 for performance at the Marylebone. Described as "a new drama founded on Carleton's novel of the same name and dramatized and adapted with new and original scenes, situations, effects et...
'Handsome Jack', drama in three acts by J. B. Howe. Licence sent 4 May 1861 for performance at the Pavilion on 6 May. Published in French's Acting Edition (Late Lacy’s), vol. 114, New York. ff. 54. J. B. Howe, writer of plays: Plays by, submitted: 1861-1867.