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'Harlequin King Ugly Mug, and my Lady Lee of old London Bridge', pantomime. Licence sent 19 December 1853 for performance at the Marylebone 26 December 1853. Signed by J. William Wallack. Songs included in MS. Keywords: supernatural, fairies and other supernatural creatures, family relations...
A. César Birotteau, ‘drame-vaudeville’ in three acts by ‘MM. Lagrangé et Cormon’ (i.e. H. F. Cardailhac and P. E. Piestre). Printed. French. Licence sent9 January 1854 for performance at the Soho Theatre. Original first performance at Théâtre du Panthéon 4 April 1838.Signed by Armand Villot...
'Fashion and famine', drama in two acts. Licence sent 27 January 1855 for performance at the Britannia Saloon 27 January 1855. Signed by Samuel Lane, proprietor. Keywords: widows, spinsters, New York, lodgers and boarding houses, disguise, poverty, debt and its consequences, gambling, Maine, ...
Love's martyrdom, play in five acts by John Saunders. Printed (1854). Licence sent 4 June 1855 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 6 June 1855. Request for licence written and signed by J. B. Buckstone. There are handwritten revisions throughout, as well as those added on separat...
'George D'arville', drama in five parts by Dion Boucicault. Licence sent 2 June 1857 for performance at the Adelphi 3 June 1857. Request for licence signed Benj. Webster. Keywords: orphans, family relationships, crime, festival and celebration, illness. ff. 21. Dionysius Lardner Boucicault...
'Dragonette', opérette in one act. (Libretto by Eugène Mestépès and L.– A. Jaime, for the music by J. Offenbach.) French. Licence sent 20 June 1857 for performance at the St. James’s. Cover stamped ‘J. Mitchell’. Keywords: French influence, military, orphans, musicians, age and ageing. ff...
'Dido', burlesque by F. C. Burnand. Licence sent 6 January 1860 for performance at the St. James's. Contains words for songs and detailed stage directions. Published in Lacy's, vol. 44, no. 655. Keywords: Roman mythology, classical civilization, literary references, cross-dressing, Carthage...
Furnished apartment, vaudeville in one act by 'MM. Cormon et Grangé' (i.e., P. E. Piestre and Eugène Basté). Printed (Michel Lèvy Frères; Bibliotheque dramatique; théatre moderne, n.d.) French. Licence sent 12 June 1860 for performance at the St James's. First performed at the Variétés, Par...
Une grisette de Paris (altered from Une maitresse bien agreeable), comedy-vaudeville in one act by 'MM. Paul de Kock and Lambert Thiboust' (i.e., P. A. A. Thiboust). Printed (Michel Lèvy Frères: Bibliotheque dramatique, théatre moderne, 1857). French. Licence sent 18 June 1860 for performa...
Histoire d'un sou, comedy in one act by 'MM. Clairville et Lambert-Thiboust' (i.e. L. F. Nicolaie and Pierre Antoine Auguste Thiboust). Printed (Beck, 1858). French. Licence sent 6 November 1860 . First performed at the Palais-Royal, Paris, 29 October 1849. Publisher's advertisement on bac...