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'Easy shaving!', farce in one act by F. C. Burnand and M. Williams. Licence sent 12 June 1863 , no details of place of performance noted on script. The present MS prepared as prompt copy. Cues and cuts written in both pencil and ink. Actors' names in pencil next to dramatis personæ. MS writ...
‘The devil’s in it’, opera in two acts , with libretto by Alfred Bunn. Licence sent 15 July 1852 for performance at the Surrey 21 July 1852. Letter from the stage manager requesting licence is bound with MS. Text written in two different hands; one using red ink to underline stage directions...
Le chevalier des dames, comédie-vaudeville in one act by ‘Marc-Michel’ (i.e. M. A. A. Michel) and E. Labiche. Printed (Paris: Bibliothèque dramatique; théâtre moderne, 1853). French. Licence sent 4 February 1853 for performance at the St. James’s. Original first performance at Théâtre du Pa...
Les Bohémiens de Paris, drama in five acts and eight tableaux by ‘Adolphe d’Ennery’ and ‘Eugène Grangé’ (i.e., A. Philippe and E. P. Basté). Printed. French. Licence sent 22 December 1853 for performance at the Soho Theatre. Original first performance at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique 27 S...
Les noces de Jeannette, opéra comique in one act by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier (for the music by Victor Massé). Printed (Paris; Bibliotheque dramatique; theâtre moderne, 1853.). French. Licence sent 26 June 1854 for performance at the St. James’s. Signed. Publisher's advertising on fro...
'Ye belle alliance, or, Harlequin and good humour and the field of the cloth of gold', pantomime by William Brough in collaboration with R. B. Brough. Licence sent 18 December 1855 for performance at Theatre Royal Covent Garden 26 December 1855. 'Proprietor. Mr John Henry Anderson' written on...
‘The first printer’, drama in three acts by Tom Taylor and Charles Reade. Licence sent 21 January 1856 for performance at the Princess’s 3 March 1856. Songs included in MS. Keywords: the press, Netherlands, family relationships, treason, aristocracy, science and technology. ff. 61. Tom Tay...
‘The mistress of the hotel’, comedy in three acts by Carlo Goldoni. Printed (1856). Italian with English translation by Thomas Williams. Licence sent 12 July 1856 for performance at the Lyceum. Signed Kemble, Esq., 94 Mount St, Grosvenor Square. With Add. 52960 B, C, D, I, and N, part of t...
‘The forger and his victim’, drama in two acts by C. Pitt. Licence sent 12 September 1856 for performance at the Britannia Saloon 12 November 1856. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Keywords: London, land and farming, fashion, murder, crime, elopement. ff. 28. C. I. Pitt, writer of pl...
La demande en marriage, song with words by Gustave Lemoine for the music by Mlle. L. Puget. Printed. French. Licence sent 19 December 1856 for performance at the St James’s. Publisher’s list at back. Keywords: French influence. ff. 2. Gustave Lemoine, dramatist: London; Secular Instituti...