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2. Add MS 52967 V
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- Add MS 52967 V
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- 'The nondescript', interlude in one act. Licence sent 5 August 1857 for performance at the Strand the same day. ‘J. M. Cooper, 86 Hercules Bldgs, Lambeth’ written on cover. Keywords: art and artists, disguise, cross-dressing. ff. 11. London. Secular Institutions; Theatres. Strand Theatre: ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 5 Aug 1857
- Extent:
- 1 item
3. Add MS 52967 B
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- Add MS 52967 B
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- 'L'opéra aux fenêtres', opérette bouffe in one act. French. Licence sent 19 June 1857 for performance at the St. James’s. Cover signed J. Mitchell. Does not appear to be listed in LCO Day Book Add. 53073. Keywords: theatre, French influence, musicians, dance, education. ff. 16. London; S...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French
- Date Range:
- 19 Jun 1857
- Extent:
- 1 item
4. Add MS 52967 I
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- Add MS 52967 I
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- 'Latest from New York' ('Nine points of the law', 'One plague drives out another', A Yankee trap for our old bird', 'Seraphina Serena Sprout'), farce in one act by J. S. Coyne. Licence sent 27 June 1857 for performance at the Adelphi. 'One of the above are the proposed title of the new farce'...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 27 Jun 1857
- Extent:
- 1 item
5. Add MS 52967 J
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- 'First and second floor', farce in one act. Licence sent 26 June 1857 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 29 June 1857. Actors’ names included alongside dramatis personae. Keywords: servants, travel, working women, fashion, flirtation. ff. 30. London; Secular Institutions. Theat...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 26 Jun 1857
- Extent:
- 1 item
6. Add MS 52967 W
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- 'Eliza Fenning', drama in two acts. Licence sent 8 August 1857 for performance at the Victoria 31 August 1857. Request for licence signed by J. Towers. Text written in two different hands. Keywords: orphans, servants, poisoning, landlords and tenants, poverty, doctors and medicine, murder, ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 8 Aug 1857
- Extent:
- 1 item
7. Add MS 52967 Z
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- Add MS 52967 Z
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- 'The scales of justice, or, Merit and interest', drama in two acts. Licence sent 14 August 1857 for performance at the Britannia Saloon the same day. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. For other versions, see Add. 52967 BB. Keywords: working class characters, industrialization, science a...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 14 Aug 1857
- Extent:
- 1 item
8. Add MS 52967 Q
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- 'Theodore of Ritzberg, or, The dumb boy of Vienna', drama of interest in two acts. Licence sent 17 July 1857 for performance at the Britannia Saloon the same day. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Keywords: aristocracy, Austria, disabled characters, crime, mourning, murder. ff. 24. Hox...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 17 Jul 1857
- Extent:
- 1 item
9. Add MS 52967 S
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- 'A case of conscience', farce in one act. Licence sent 18 July 1857 for performance at the Princess’s 16 November 1857. Speaking cues and stage directions underlined in red. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. Keywords: lodgers and boarding houses, mur...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 18 Jul 1857
- Extent:
- 1 item
10. Add MS 52967 Y
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- Add MS 52967 Y
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- 'The honour of the house, or, Ppride and passion', drama in two acts. Licence sent 14 August 1857 for performance at the Britannia Saloon 18 August 1857. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Keywords: aristocracy, sport, servants, duelling, festival and celebration. ff. 16. Hoxton; Middle...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 14 Aug 1857
- Extent:
- 1 item