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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 52929-53708 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1001. Add MS 52963 DD

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‘Don’t you wish you may get it? or, The three wishes’, farce in one act by Thomas Mowbray. Licence sent 27 December 1856 for performance at the Soho 27 December 1856. Request for licence signed Thomas Mowbray. Songs included in MS. Keywords: classical civilization, land and farming, the supe...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1856
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1 item

1002. Add MS 52963 E

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Wallace, tragedy in five acts by Robert Buchanan. Printed (1856). Licence sent 9 December 1856 for performance at the Princess’s Theatre, Glasgow. Listed as an amateur performance in Nicoll. Keywords: Scotland, English characters, British Empire, treason, politicians, revolution, castles, e...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Dec 1856
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1 item

1003. Add MS 52963 EE

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‘The babes in the wood, or Harlequin and the cruel uncle’, pantomime. Licence sent 27 December 1856 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 24 December 1856. Revisions throughout text. Songs included in MS. Keywords: family relationships, animals, fairies and other supernatural creat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

1004. Add MS 52963 F

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‘Harlequin Aladdin, or, The wonderful lamp’, pantomime. Licence sent 9 December 1856 for performance at the Princess’s. Stage directions and speaking cues are underlined in red or black. Attributed in Nicoll to J. M. Morton under the title ‘Aladdin and the wonderful lamp’ with a performance ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Dec 1856
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1 item

1005. Add MS 52963 FF

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‘Mother Shipton, or, Harlequin knight of love and the enchanted whistle pipe’, pantomime. Licence sent 27 December 1856 for performance at the Adelphi 26 December 1856. Request for licence signed Benj. Webster. Revisions and annotations throughout the text, which is written in a number of di...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

1006. Add MS 52963 G

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‘Aladdin and the wonderful lamp’, a ‘seriously comical and comically serious comic pantomime, culled, concocted, compiled, and composed, from the original double distilled Sanskrit, with alterations, emendations, corrections, and revisions’, by Edgar Taylor. Licence sent 9 December 1856 for pe...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

1007. Add MS 52963 GG

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Index ff. 2.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1856
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1 item

1008. Add MS 52963 H

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‘Puss in boots, or, Harlequin the miller’s son, and the ogre’, comic pantomime. Licence sent 13 December 1856 for performance at the Queen’s Theatre Edinburgh. Speaking cues and stage directions underlined in red. Not listed in Nicoll. Keywords: harlequinade, working class characters, Ameri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

1009. Add MS 52963 I

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‘Man, or, The seven steps to ruin’, in two acts. Licence sent 13 December 1856 for performance at the Britannia Saloon 15 December 1856. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Not listed in LCO Day Book Add. 53073. Keywords: working class characters, poverty, gambling, debt and its consequen...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

1010. Add MS 52963 J

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‘Ghost hunter, or, The body in the bosheen’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 13 December 1856 for performance at the Britannia Saloon 13 December 1856. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Keywords: ghosts, murder, supernatural, crime, Ireland. ff. 27. Hoxton; Middlesex Britannia Theatre ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item