'Mind your points', by W. Sidney and H. P. Grattan.
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Described as 'an original realistic life-like drama in three acts' on folio 1. Licence sent 30 November 1869 for performance at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, Rochdale. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for passages suggesting Eve would never have left Paradise if it had contained a fashionable m...
'Miss Leah, or, The maid, the marriage and the malediction', by M. Dutnall and A. C. Shelley.
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Extravaganza. Licence sent 8 April 1864 for performance at the Surrey. The names of the authors are not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to M. Dutnall and A. C. Shelley, also noting that the play appeared with the title 'Miss Leah' altered to either 'Miss Leer' or 'Miss Lear'.
'Harlequin and Old Aesop, or, Dr Syntax and his animated alphabet', by F. Fenton and W. R. Osman.
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Pantomime. Licence sent 18 December 1865 for performance at the Victoria. Messrs [Frederick] Frampton and Fenton, lessees of the theatre, noted on folio 1. MS in two hands. The attribution of the play to Fenton and Osman is taken from Nicoll, the names of the dramatists not being recorded on the...
The sleeping beauty, or, Harlequin and the spiteful fairy, by G. A. A'Beckett and C. H. Ross.
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Pantomime. Licence sent 23 December 1870 for performance at Covent Garden. Printed (1870). The names of those who created the scenery, the costumes and those who composed the dances and the music (Herve) mentioned on folio 2. Detailed descriptions of the characters together with the names of the...
Play by H. Nicholls, writer of plays; submitted: 1888 Play by Sir A. Harris, writer of plays; submitted: 1888 Play by Edward Litt Leman Blanchard, called 'Francisco Frost'; writer; submitted: 1888
Play by Frederick Edward Weatherly, K.C.; barrister and songwriter; submitted: 1894 Play by H. A. Rudall, writer of plays; submitted: 1894 Play by Gilbert Arthur A Beckett, lawyer and dramatist; submitted: 1894
'Ching-Chow-Hi, or, A cracked piece of China', by W. Brough and G. Reed.
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Opera di camera in one act. Licence sent 5 August 1865 for performance at the Gallery of Illustration. Printed (n.d.) but with the title added by hand.
'Un chapeau de paille d'Italie', by Monsieur Marc-Michel and E. M. Labiche.
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Comedy in five acts. Licence sent 5 July 1867 for performance at St James's. Printed (n.d.). A half-page illustration and a dramatis personae together with the names of the actors included on folio 1.