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1531. Add MS 52984 Q

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‘Ivy Hall’, drama in two acts by John Oxenford. Licence sent 21 September 1859 for performance at the Princess’s on 24 September 1859. Inside cover signed Augustus Harris. Signed E. and J. Hastings, copyists. Copied in more than one hand. Some actors’ names (including Henry Irving’s) penci...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1859
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1 item

1532. Add MS 52984 R

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‘A poor man’s trials, or, Life as it is’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 21 September 1859 for performance at the Britannia. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Listed in Nicoll as ‘The poor carpenter and his family’. Keywords: class conflicts, lower-class characters, upper-class charact...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1859
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1 item

1533. Add MS 52984 S

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‘The bridal of Beatrix’ (altered from ‘Navarro’), drama in three acts. Licence sent 23 September 1859 for performance at the Surrey. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. Keywords: Early modern settings, nobility, Spanish settings, weddings, Catholicism, ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Sep 1859
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1 item

1534. Add MS 52984 T

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‘The railroad of life, or, A parliamentary express’, drama in two acts by J. B. Johnstone. Licence sent 23 September 1859 for performance at the Effingham. Keywords: gipsies, family relationships, widows, servants, poverty, popular song, Portsmouth, trains and rail travel, ships as settings,...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Sep 1859
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1 item

1535. Add MS 52984 U

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‘The three dummies’ (altered from ‘Playing the dummy, or, Dumbfoundered', farce in one act. Licence sent 23 September 1859 for performance at the Surrey. Signed E. and J. Hastings, copyists. Keywords: dumb characters, shopkeepers, artisans, concealed identity, mistaken identity, vets, dance,...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Sep 1859
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1 item

1536. Add MS 52984 V

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‘Love and hunger’, farce in one act by J. M. Morton. Licence sent 26 September 1859 for performance at the Adelphi. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 42, no. 624. Differences between Lacy’s text and MS text. Keywords: inns, Reading, servants, travel, food and eating, family relationships, engageme...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1859
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1 item

1537. Add MS 52984 W

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Index. ff. 1.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1859
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1 item

1538. Add MS 52985 A

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‘Dinorah, the pilgrimage to Ploermel’, romantic opera in three acts; the music by G. Meyerbeer, 'the English version paraphrased from the original French of MM. Barbier & Carré by Henry J. Chorley'. Licence sent 28 September 1859 for performance by the English Opera Company, Covent Garden....
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1859
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1 item

1539. Add MS 52985 A-M

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Lord Chamberlain's Plays, 1852 - 1866. September - October 1859 .
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1859-Oct 1859
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13 items

1540. Add MS 52985 B

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‘Virginius, or, The trials of a fond father’, burlesque in one act by L. S. Buckingham. Licence sent 28 September 1859 for performance at the St. James’s on 1 October 1859. Copied in more than one hand. Contains words for songs. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 42, no. 627. Keywords: classical ci...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1859
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1 item