‘Going to see the fireworks’, farce in one act by Colbert Harding. Licence sent 11 June 1856 for performance at the Grecian Saloon 11 June 1856. Signed C. Cardinil, 9 Stanhope Street, Glo’ster Gate, Regent’s Park in same hand as MS. Actor’s names listed alongside dramatis personae. Keywords:...
Pia de’Tolomei, tragedy in five acts by Charles Marenco. Printed (1855). Italian with French translation. Licence sent 11 June 1856 for performance at the Lyceum. Original first performance at the Théâtre Impérial Italien 31 July 1855. Actors’ names written alongside dramatis personae. LC...
‘Dred, a tale of the great dismal swamp’, drama in two acts by __ (name illegible). Licence sent 24 September 1856 for performance at the Victoria 29 September 1856. Request for licence signed J. Johnson Towers. Songs included in MS. Diagrams included. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the s...
‘Anne Boleyn, or, Harlequin King Harry and the miller of the river Dee’, comic pantomime by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 19 December 1856 for performance at the City of London 19 December 1856. Cover signed Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Revisions and annotations throughout. Keywords: Early Mo...
'A life's ransom', drama in five acts. Licence sent 1 March 1857 for performance at the Lyceum 16 February 1857. Cover signed by the lessee, Charles Dillon. Revisions to text added on different types of paper. Published in Lacy's, vol. 54, no. 804, where it is attributed to Westland Marston...
'Daddy Hardacre', drama in two acts by J. P. Simpson. Licence sent 11 April 1857 for performance at the Olympic 26 March 1857. Revisions throughout the text. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that 'O God' be altered to 'O Heaven'. Keywords: land and farming, law and the legal ...
'The forty thieves', burlesque in two acts by George Conquest. Licence sent 15 April 1857 for performance at the Grecian Saloon 10 April 1857. Songs included in MS. Keywords: Arabs, fairies and other supernatural creatures, crime, Bagdad, debt and its consequences, ghosts, supernatural, work...
'Our traviata', burlesque in one act by W. F. Vandervell. Licence sent 5 September 1857 for performance at the Surrey 14 September 1857. Cover signed Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. Songs included in MS. For other versions see Add. 52966 R, 52967 T, and 52968 B. Keywords: literature and lit...
'The war trail, or, The white horse of the prairie', grand Mexican equestrian spectacle in three acts by W. T. Townsend. Licence sent 15 October 1857 for performance at Astley's.Royal Amphitheatre. Cover signed William Cooke, lessee and manager, and W. West, stage manager. Keywords: Mexico, ...
'Harlequin Prince Love the Day, or, Queen Busy Bee, Little Red Riding Hood, and the fiend wolf', pantomime by H. Young. Licence sent 19 December 1857 for performance at the Victoria 26 December 1857. Request for licence signed by J. Johnson Towers. Copied by Isaac Cohen. Songs included in ...