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11511. Add MS 52931 S

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‘A chain of events’, drama in eight acts by ‘Slingsby Lawrence’ (i.e. G. H. Lewes) and C. J. Matthews. Licence sent 11 April 1852 for performance at the Lyceum 12 April 1852. The whole of Act II is devoted to scenic effect with no dialogue at all. Songs included with MS. For another version...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1852
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1 item

11512. Add MS 52932 H

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Un service à Blanchard, vaudeville in one act by ‘E. Moreau’ and ‘A. Delacour’. Printed (1852). Licence sent 4 May 1852 for performance at St. James’s. Signed by J. Mitchell. Original first performance at the Théâtre du Gymnase 6 April 1852. Dramatis personae lists actors’ names. Publishe...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
4 May 1852
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1 item

11513. Add MS 52932 V

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Kabale und Liebe, tragedy in five acts by F. Schiller. Printed (1847). German. Licence sent 6 June 1852 for performance at the St. James’s. Omissions marked throughout text. Noted on cover to be ‘corrected from acting copy and by Examiner of plays.’ No entry for this play in LCO Day Book ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
6 Jun 1852
Extent:
1 item

11514. Add MS 52933 CC

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‘The master passion’, comedy in two acts by Mrs. Alfred Philips. Licence sent 31 August 1852 for performance at the Olympic 1 September 1852. Title page is signed by W. Farren, manager. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that duelling scene in first act be omitted and that a phr...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1852
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1 item

11515. Add MS 52933 K

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‘Mrs. Johnson’, farce in one act by ‘Hugo Vamp’ (i.e. J. R. O’Neill). Licence sent 19 July 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 26 July 1852. Title page signed by Wm. Sheridan Smith, manager, and the author. ‘Hugo Vamp’ also appears but is slightly obscured. Includes diagra...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jul 1852
Extent:
1 item

11516. Add MS 52933 R

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Casilda’, opera in four acts. Printed (circa 1852); possibly proof copy. Italian. Licence sent 6 August 1852 for performance at Her Majesty’s. Back of MS signed by a ‘Mr. Jennings’. There is one entry in LCO Day Book Add. 53703 covering both Add. 52933 R and 52933 S. Keywords: gypsies, ur...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
6 Aug 1852
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1 item

11517. Add MS 52936 H

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'Harlequin Cherry and the fair star, or, The green bird, the dancing waters and the singing tree', comic pantomime by George Ellis. Cover signed by manager. Licence sent 6 December 1852 for performance at the Princess's 27 December 1852. Extensive stage directions. Songs included in MS. Not...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1852
Extent:
1 item

11518. Add MS 52937 M

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‘The guardian spirit’, drama in three acts by 'Hugo Vamp' (i.e. J. R. O’Neill), ‘partially founded upon Paul de Kock’s celebrated novel The banker of Paris’. Licence sent 10 February 1853 for performance at the Marylebone. Title page signed both ‘Hugo Vamp’ and J. R. O’Neill. Elaborate sketch...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1853
Extent:
1 item

11519. Add MS 52938 B

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'Life in Australia, from our own correspondent’, drama in three acts by Mrs. Alfred Phillips. Licence sent 17 February 1853 for performance at the Olympic 21 February 1853. Different types of paper suggest some revisions. Keywords: Ireland, festivals and celebration, working class characters...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1853
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1 item

11520. Add MS 52938 Y

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'The talisman, or, Richard Coeur de Lion and the Knight of the Couchant Leopard’, burlesque in two acts. Licence sent 24 March 1853 for performance at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane 28 March 1853. Revisions throughout. Performed various times from the late eighteenth century on. Keywords: the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Mar 1853
Extent:
1 item