‘My lover the captain’, farce in one act by J. Edward Thompson. Licence sent 5 March 1852 for performance at the Strand 8 March 1852. Keywords: suburbs, doctors and medicine, science and technology, servants, military, nautical drama, Egypt, disguise, children, cross-dressing, poverty ff. 14. ...
‘Taking by storm’, farce in one act by 'Frank Churchill' (i.e. G. H. Lewes). Licence sent 1 June 1852 for performance at the Lyceum 5 June 1852. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 6, no. 89. Keywords: military, literature and literary reference, the press, theatre, spinsters, nautical drama, art and ...
‘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’, ...