Burlesque. Licence sent 24 August 1870 for performance at the Strand. Nicoll gives the play's full title as 'The idle 'prentice, A Tyburnian idyll of high, low, Jack and his little game'.
Comic opera in one act with music by Adolphe Adam. Licence sent 31 August 1870 for performance at the Gaiety. Printed: Lacy's Acting Edition (Thomas Hales Lacy, 89 Strand. (n.d.). Folio 2v notes the play being first performed at the Theatre Royal, Cork, on Wednesday 26 December 1860, together wit...
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 2 September 1870 for performance at the Princess's. Printed (n.d.). LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for the lines 'Long life to it! Your honour told us that for them found fightin' to be congenial and life not worth havin', unless for the sake of throwin' it aw...
Farce in one act. Licence sent 1 September 1870 for performance at the Vaudeville. Printed (n.d.), with manuscript additions. The original printed title of Alexander the Great has been crossed through and replaced by 'Chiselling'. The names of the authors are not recorded on the script but Nicol...
Drama in four acts. Licence sent 3 September 1870 for performance at the East London. Morris Abrahams noted as the theatre manager on folio 1. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to E. Towers.
Comedietta in one act. Licence sent 3 September 1870 for performance at the Standard. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for the line 'Besides no end of rolls on the grass' to be omitted. The playwright, who is not named on the script, is cited as the author of 'For Sale', etc., on folio 1. Nicoll...
'The three temptations, wine, women and gambling and the three blessings honour, honesty and virtue', by F. Marchant.
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Drama in two acts. Licence sent 10 September 1870 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to F. Marchant under the title 'The three perils, or, Wine, women and gam...
Comedietta in one act. Licence sent 13 September 1870 for performance at the Prince of Wales's. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to F. Waller.
'Innisfallen, or, The men of the gap', by E. Falconer.
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Drama in three acts. Licence sent 14 September 1870 for performance at the Lyceum. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for the line 'Here [in Ireland] the path to distinction, wealth and what are called honours has ever been closed to the Patriot' be omitted from Act II Scene 2'. The name of the au...