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1451. Add MS 52981 J

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‘St. Giles’s Overreach, or, A new way old debts to pay’, burlesque in one act by G. W. Simms. Licence sent 24 March 1859 to be performed 31 March 1859 at the Victoria. Cover signed and text copied by Isaac Cohen. Listed as ‘Sir Giles Overreach’ in both Nicoll and LCO Day Book Add. 52703. Wo...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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24 Mar 1859
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1452. Add MS 52981 K

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‘The Castle of Otranto’, burlesque in one act. Licence sent 26 March 1859 for performance at the St. James’s. Some cuts and amendments in ink. Based on the novel by Horace Walpole, 1764. Keywords: Italian settings, literary reference, supernatural, weddings, popular song, castles, politics...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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26 Mar 1859
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1453. Add MS 52981 L

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‘Francesca, or, A dream of Venice’, tragedy in five acts by Edmund Falconer. Licence sent 28 March 1859 to be performed 31 March 1859 at the Lyceum. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that a section of text be omitted and ‘Heaven’ be substituted for ‘God’. Extensive cuts crossed...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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28 Mar 1859
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1454. Add MS 52981 M

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‘Husbands beware’, farce in one act by E. Falconer. Licence sent 30 March 1859 to be performed 31 March 1859 at the Lyceum. Copied by G. Hastings. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that all oaths, and the line ‘your last letter making an assignation to go with me to Newmarket’,...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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30 Mar 1859
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1455. Add MS 52981 N

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‘Everybody’s friend’ ('The widow hunt'), comedy in five acts by J. S. Coyne. Licence sent 31 March 1859 for performance at the Haymarket on 2 April 1859. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. MS contains extensive cuts in ink and pasted-in amendments. Pu...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1859
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1 item

1456. Add MS 52981 O

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‘Nine points of the law’, comedietta in one act by T. Taylor. Licence sent 5 April 1859 for performance at the Olympic. Contains numerous cuts and amendments in ink and pencil. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 40, no.600. Based on the novel ‘Clover Cottage, or, I can’t get in,’ by M. W. Savage, 18...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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5 Apr 1859
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1 item

1457. Add MS 52981 P

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‘The mechanic, or, The lights and shades of virtue and vice’, drama in two acts by G. Clair. Licence sent 9 April 1859 for performance at the Effingham. French settings, working men and women, Paris, class conflicts, poverty, cooking, courtship, taverns, courtship, aristocrats, drink and drun...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1859
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1 item

1458. Add MS 52981 Q

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‘Household words, all the year round’, farce by Sydney J. G. French. Licence sent 11 April 1859 for performance at the Lyceum. Keywords: literary reference, eavesdropping, servants, marital relationships, debt, creditors. ff. 18. Sydney French, writer of plays: Plays by, submitted: 1859-18...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1859
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1 item

1459. Add MS 52981 R

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‘Beau Brummel’, drama in two acts by M. W. B. Jerrold. Licence sent 11 April 1859 for performance at the Lyceum on 10 April 1859. MS written in more than one hand. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 44, no. 652 as ‘Beau Brummel, the King of Calais’. Various textual differences between Lacy’s and MS...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1859
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1 item

1460. Add MS 52981 S

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‘Orphan of the mine’, drama in two acts by W. E. Suter. Licence sent 11 April 1859 for performance at the Queens. Signed W. E. Suter. Extensive stage directions underlined. Keywords: natural phenomena, exile, treason, royalty, Russia, Poland, duelling, inns, military, family relationships,...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1859
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1 item