'Ellie Brandon, or, Love and hate', by "M. Price".
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Drama in five acts. Licence sent 15 April 1868 for performance at the City of London. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for the word 'Lord' to be omitted throughout.
Drama in four acts. Licence sent 16 April 1868 for performance at St George's. The author is not noted by name on the script but is referred to as 'The author of 'A woman's whim''. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for all oaths and curses to be omitted in representation. Nicoll lists the play wi...
'No throughfair beyond Highbury, or, The maid, the mother and the malicious mountaineer', by H. C. Hazlewood, Jnr.
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Burlesque. Licence sent 14 April 1868 for performance at the Alexandra. The name of the author is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to H. C. Hazlewood, Jnr.
Farce in one act. Licence sent 16 April 1868 for performance at the Standard. The full title given on the script, and written in two hands, is 'A Royal Marriage, suggested by an incident occuring at the time of the Prince of Wales's marriage'. The name of the author is not noted on the script but...
Hit and "Miss", or, All my eye and Betty Martyn, by F. C. Burnand.
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An operatic absurdity. Licence sent 16 April 1868 for performance at the Olympic. Printed by John Bennett, Cheapside (n.d.). Dramatis personae on folio 3, together with the names of the actors - the playwright R. Soutar among them.
Drama in one act. Licence sent 21 April 1868 for performance at the Garrick. Nicoll lists the play as author unknown, and no details of the author are noted on the script.
Drama in three acts and a prologue. Licence sent 27 April 1868 for performance at the East London. The name of the theatre manager, Morris Abrahams, noted on folio 1.
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 27 April 1868 for performance at the Olympic. Mr B. Webster [Benjamin Webster] noted as the theatre manager on folio 1. MS in two hands. The name of the author is not recored on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to J. P. Simpson, written in collaboration...
List of plays submitted to the Lord Chamberlain's Office during April 1868, together with the names of the theatres of proposed representation. In the hand of William Bodham Donne, Examiner of Plays.