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‘An act in the life of Garrick’, comedy in one act translated from the German by Hermann Vezin. Licence sent 5 January 1856 for performance at the Theatre Royal Liverpool 5 January 1856. Keywords: theatre, literature and literary reference, festival and celebration. ff. 16. Hermann Vezin, a...
The postman’s knock, musical farce in one act by L. M. Thornton. Printed (n.d.) Licence sent 22 March 1856 for performance at the Surrey 10 April 1856. Songs included in MS. Keywords: pubs and inns, land and farming, elopement. ff. 11. Lewis Mansel Thornton, writer of plays: London; Secul...
‘The rights of woman’, farce in one act, by J. M. Morton. Licence sent 23 May 1856 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 24 May 1856. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 26, no. 385, under the title The rights and wrongs of woman. Keywords: fashion, servants, police. ff. 14. John Maddison ...
'Bird in hand', drama in three acts by F. L. Phillips. Licence sent 2 January 1857 for performance at the Surrey 19 January 1857. List of dramas licensed in January 1857 bound in with this MS. Keywords: eighteenth-century settings, military, servants, death, Yorkshire, inheritance, landlords...
'Up in the world', farce in one act by J. Worthington. Licence sent 1 October 1857 for performance at the Surrey the same day. Last page signed Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 109. Keywords:...
‘Take care of Dowb—’, a farce in one act by J. M. Morton. Licence sent 2 November 1857 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 23 November 1857. Revisions throughout the text. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 34, no. 498. Keywords: flirtation, letters, gardens, abandonment, travel, adultery...
'Eight hours by the seaside, or, A day in Brighton', farce in one act by William Sawyer. Licence sent 28 November 1857 for performance at the Theatre Royal Brighton 18 November 1857. Cover signed H. N. Chart. Keywords: seaside settings, sport, trains and rail travel, stagecraft. ff. 14. Wi...
'Next of kin', comedietta in two acts by E. Falconer. Licence sent 4 April 1860 for performance at the Lyceum 9 April 1860. Contains calls, scene changes and cuts in ink, stage directions in pencil. A previous version of the play was produced at Birmingham, for which see Add. 52990 F. Publi...
'Does he love me?', comedy in three acts by E. Falconer. Licence sent 19 June 1860 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Signed Thos. Pugh (?). MS copied in more than one hand, numbered cues and amendments added in pencil. Published in Lacy's, vol. 100, no. 1486. Keywords: arist...
'The babes in the wood', comedy in three acts by Tom Taylor. Licence sent 9 November 1860 for performance at the Haymarket. Cuts, cues and stage directions in red ink and pencil, list of properties on inside front cover. MS. written in more than one hand. Published in Lacy's, vol. 50, no. 73...