'Lady Audley’s secret', drama in two acts by C. H. Hazlewood. Licence sent 21 May 1863 with no added details of theatre, but LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records place of performance as the Victoria. Stamp of Frederick Fenton and Frederick Frampton, joint managers of the theatre, on title page. P...
'The poor girl, or, El Idiour the wanderer', drama in two acts and four tableaus by Mrs Henry Young (i.e. Melinda Young). Licence sent 8 July 1863 for performance at the Effingham. "'The Poor Girl' from Mr Abrahams, Effingham theatre" written on back cover. ff. 55. Melinda Young, also cal...
'The hen and chickens', comic drama in two acts by B. Webster. Licence sent 22 August 1863 for performance at the Adelphi. Listed in Nicoll as written in 1864. ff. 49. Benjamin Webster, the younger, writer of plays: Plays by, submitted: 1863-1867.
'A bull in a china shop', comedietta in two acts by C. J. Matthews. Licence sent 5 November 1863 for performance at the Haymarket. MS in more than one hand. Stage directions and speakers underlined in red ink. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records date of licence as 7 November 1863. ff. 63. Cha...
'Man in gray (sic)', drama in two acts and four epochs by J. B. Howe. Licence sent 3 December 1863 for performance at the Effingham. Morris Abrahams, the theatre manager, noted on cover. Listed as "drama in a prologue" in the LCO Day Book Add. 52703. Listed in Nicoll as 'The man in grey'. ...
'The king of the carbuncles, or, Harlequin Prince Peerless and the enchanted beauty of the diamond castle', pantomime. Licence sent 22 December 1852 for performance at the Queen's 27 December 1852. Signed by C. F. James. Songs included in MS. Keywords: stagecraft, Commedia dell'Arte, drinki...
'Le bombardement d'Odessa', ‘drame militaire’ in one act by ‘Bartelemy’ (i.e. Barthélémy Deville). French. Licence sent 2 June 1854 for performance at the Soho Theatre. Keywords: Russian Empire, French imperialism, British Empire, military, Muslims and Islam, Christians and Christianity, Crim...
'The fiend's mountain, or, The Gaston adventure' ('The fiend's mountain, or, The adventurer'), drama in five tableaux, [adapted] from the French by J. H. Reynoldson. Licence sent 8 September 1855 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 8 September 1855. Signed by E. T. Smith. Revisi...
‘Harlequin ogre, or, The invisible princess and the four charmed fish’, Eastern sketch taken from the Arabian Nights Entertainment by George H. Renaud ‘for J. B. Egan, lessee and manager, Royal Queen’s Theatre, Manchester’. Licence sent 13 November 1856 for performance at the Queen’s Theatre, ...
'A husband's vengeance, or, The children of the castle' ('A husband's vengeance, or, The knight of Wharley'), play in three acts by Edward Fitzball. Licence sent 21 November 1857 for performance at Marylebone 28 November 1857. Keywords: castles, drinking and drunkenness, supernatural, aristoc...