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036-002004708 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

11. Add MS 52963 A

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‘Birds of prey’, drama in three acts. Licence sent 27 November 1856 for performance at the Surrey. Not listed in LCO Day Book Add. 53073. Nicoll attributes a play of this title to T. W. Robertson, but gives no details in the list under the author’s name. Keywords: French influence, sport, d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1856
Extent:
1 item

12. 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

13. Add MS 52963 Z

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‘Harlequin William the Conquerer and King Vice of the silent city, or, War wine and love and Queen Virtue in the vistas of light and glitter’, pantomime. Licence sent 22 December 1856 for performance at the Victoria 27 December 1856. Request for licence signed J. Johnson Towers. Songs includ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

14. 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

15. Add MS 52963 S

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‘Paul Pry on horseback! or, Harlequin and the magic horseshoe!’, grand comic equestrian pantomime written expressly for Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre by C. A. Somerset. Licence sent 19 December 1856 for performance at Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre 26 December 1856. Cover signed William Cooke, les...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

16. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

17. Add MS 52963 P

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‘Ein Arzt’, comedy in one act by A.W. Heffe. German. Licence sent 19 December 1856 for performance at the St James’s 15 December 1856. Letter signed by L. Grünfeld requesting licence bound in with text. ff. 38. A. W. Heffe, writer of plays: Play by, submitted: 1856: Germ.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
19 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

18. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

19. Add MS 52963 B

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‘Blind man’s bluff, or, The man who would see and couldn’t’, comedy in one act. Licence sent 27 November 1856 for performance at the Britannia Saloon. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Listed neither in the LCO Day Book Add. 53073 nor Nicoll. Keywords: gardens, seaside settings, science...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1856
Extent:
1 item

20. Add MS 52963 M

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‘Hushaby baby on the tree top, or, The comet of 1856 without his tail’, pantomime. Licence sent 13 December 1856 for performance at the Britannia Saloon 13 December 1856. Comic scenes appear before the speaking parts, the reverse of the usual order. Keywords: the press, harlequinade, Crimea,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item