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11251. Add MS 52949 B

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'Faust and Marguerite, or, The demon tempter', melodrama in three acts. Licence sent 11 August 1854 for performance at the Grecian Saloon the same day. Songs included in MS. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that two passages be censored for religious content. Keywords: science and...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Italian
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11 Aug 1854
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1 item

11252. Add MS 52949 Q

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'The avalanche, or, The trials of the heart', drama in four acts by A. G. Harris. Licence sent 29 September 1854 for performance at the Surrey 3 March 1854. Additional stage directions added in pencil, and there are revisions where parts of the page have been entirely removed. Published in L...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1854
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1 item

11253. Add MS 52950 S

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Le premier coup de Canif, comédie-vaudeville in two acts by ‘MM. Anicet-Bourgeois et Édouard Brisebarre’ (i.e. A. A. Bourgeois and É. L. A. Brisebarre). Printed (Paris; Théâtre contemporain illustré, n.d.). French. Licence sent 14 November 1854 for performance at the Soho Theatre. Original ...
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Western Manuscripts
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French
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14 Nov 1854
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1 item

11254. Add MS 52951 M

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'Jack and Jill, or, Harlequin and King Mustard and four and twenty blackbirds in a pie', pantomime by E. L. Blanchard. Licence sent 21 December 1854 for performance at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 26 December 1854. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that two scenes of the comic ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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21 Dec 1854
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1 item

11255. Add MS 52953 O

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'Past midnight', farce in one act by G. Conquest. Licence sent 26 March 1855 for performance at the Grecian Saloon 24 March 1855. Elaborate description of setting. Nicoll does not attribute this play to Conquest. Keywords: bachelors. ff. 23. George Augustus Conquest, acrobat, pantomimist,...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Mar 1855
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1 item

11256. Add MS 52954 B

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'Food for gossip', comedy in three acts translated and adapted from the Italian ‘Oste e non oste’, ‘expressly for the present occasion’ by Alfred Elwes. Licence sent 23 April 1855 for performance at the Soho Theatre 23 April 1855. Playbill bound in with the script which lists ‘Miss Kelly's Th...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1855
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1 item

11257. Add MS 52954 X

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L'auberge de Schawasbach, pièce in one act by Alexandre Dumas. Printed (1850). French. Licence sent 21 June 1855 for performance at the Soho Theatre. Original first performance at Théâtre de la Gaité 20 March 1850. Publisher's advertising at front and back. Keywords: peasants, French infl...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Jun 1855
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1 item

11258. Add MS 52957 E

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'The northern imp, or, Harlequin and the spirit of freedom', pantomime. Licence sent 4 December 1855 for performance at the Albert & Garrick Royal Amphitheatre 4 December 1855. Signed L. Levy. Another unidentifiable signature appears on cover. Songs included in MS. LCO Day Book Add. 5...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Dec 1855
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1 item

11259. Add MS 52957 P

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'The fox and the grapes or, Harlequin and old Esop's fables', pantomime. Licence sent 17 December 1855 for performance at the City of London 26 December 1855. Signed by Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: animals, fairies and other supernatural creatures, Harlequinade, London, working ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Dec 1855
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1 item

11260. Add MS 52960 E

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‘Music hath charms’, farce in one act by David Fisher. Licence sent 27 June 1856 for performance at the Princess 7 July 1856. Speaking cues and stage directions are underlined in red. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 63. Keywords: French influence, lodgers and boarding houses, dance. ff. 18. Davi...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1856
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1 item