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Name Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel, Middlesex

1. Add MS 52933 GG

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‘Caspar Duverdi’ al. ‘Caspar Duverdi, the terror of Spain, or, The traitor, the Jew and the gypsy’, romantic melodrama in three acts. Licence sent 8 September 1852 for performance at the Pavillion. Text written in two different hands. Keywords: gypsies, education, Spanish characters, Spain, ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1852
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1 item

2. Add MS 52933 V

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‘The betting boy’s career, from the counting house to the hulks’, (‘Fifty to one against him’), drama in two acts. Licence sent 12 August 1852 for performance at the Pavilion 12 August 1852. Stage directions require that ‘plates’ be ‘struck.’ A ‘picture reference’ list for ‘numbers’ 1 - 5 ap...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1852
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1 item

3. Add MS 52934 A

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‘The Assyrian spy’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 8 September 1852 for performance at the Pavilion 8 September 1852. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that a phrase referring to scripture be substituted. Only act one has survived in this MS. Keywords: widows, working class c...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1852
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1 item

4. Add MS 52935 DD

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'The swell mob's man, or, The housebreaker of White Chapel', domestic drama in two acts. Licence requested for performance at the Pavilion 30 October 1852, but refused 9 November 1852. Note explaining the meaning of 'housebreaker' appears on title page. Play not entered in LCO Day Book Add. 5...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1852
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1 item

5. Add MS 52936 Z

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'Uncle Tom and Lucy Neal, or Harlequin liberty and slavery', pantomime. Licence sent 27 December 1852 for performance at the Pavilion 27 December 1852. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation for a number of omissions primarily due to political allusions. Last page signed by J.C. Mor...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1852
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1 item

6. Add MS 52952 L

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'The seven poor travellers, or, Life's faults and follies', domestic dramatic sketch in two acts by G. D. Pitt. Licence sent 9 February 1855 for performance at the Pavilion 10 February 1855. Signed by J. C. Morgan, prompter. A note by the author reads 'This little sketch is from the last new...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1855
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 52953 W

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'Temptation', drama in two acts by Frederick Neale. Licence sent 4 April 1855 for performance at the Pavilion 4 April 1855. Listed in Nicoll under ‘unknown authors’. Keywords: land and farming, inheritance, illness, doctors and medicine, illegitimacy, crime, kidnapping, military, doctors and...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Apr 1855
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1 item

8. Add MS 52954 DD

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'Jack Sheppard', drama in three acts. Licence sent 11 July 1855 for performance at the Pavilion 13 July 1855. For another version see Add. 52955 J. Keywords: crime, poverty, widows, execution, working class characters, eighteenth-century settings, murder. ff. 67. Whitechapel; Middlesex Pav...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jul 1855
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1 item

9. Add MS 52954 N

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'The ratcatcher's daughter', ‘written from the popular song of that name’ by James Elphinstone. Licence sent 23 May 1855 for performance at the Pavilion 23 May 1855. For another version see Add. 52955 X. Keywords: working class characters, poverty, London, servants, sport, military. ff. 64....
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1855
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1 item

10. Add MS 52956 J

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'Oliver Twist,' an ‘entire new version dramatised by Messrs. James Elphinstone and Frederick Neale (from Charles Dickens novel of the same name) expressly for the Pavilion Theatre in three acts [sic]’. Licence sent 1 October 1855 for performance at the Pavilion 17 September 1855. Written in m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item