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1581. Add MS 52987 I

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‘Harlequin and Robin Redbreast, or, Prince Cock Sparrow’, pantomime by J. B. Johnstone. Licence sent 25 November 1859 for performance at the Queen’s, Manchester. Signed by the copyist J. H. Doyne (?), Manchester. Contains words for songs. Keywords: forest settings, animals, popular song, r...
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Western Manuscripts
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25 Nov 1859
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1582. Add MS 52987 J

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The other Mr. Brooks, drama in two acts. Printed (Canterbury; Chivers, n.d.) Licence sent 26 November 1859 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Leicester. Signed John Townsend, manager. Keywords: festivals, letters, courtship, servants, military, artists, policemen, drunkenness, identity,...
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26 Nov 1859
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1583. Add MS 52987 K

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‘Gio, the armourer of Tyre’, drama in three acts by Joseph Proctor. Licence sent 28 November 1859 for performance at the Standard on 28 November 1859. Signed Mr John Douglass, lessee and manager. Not listed in Nicoll. Keywords: classical civilization, Phoenicia, Egypt, Greek mythology, roya...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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28 Nov 1859
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1584. Add MS 52987 L

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‘Home truths’, play in three acts by T. H. Reynoldson. Licence sent 29 November 1859 for performance at the Princess’s. MS written in more than one hand. Later version published as Good for evil, or, A wife’s trial, in Lacy’s, vol. 43, no. 640; the text varies considerably from MS version. ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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29 Nov 1859
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1585. Add MS 52987 M

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‘The key under the doormat’, farce in one act. Licence sent 30 November 1859 for performance at the Lyceum. Contains words for songs. Keywords: French settings and character names, bachelors, washerwomen, masquerades, marital relationships, adultery, disguise, letters, food, festivals, imper...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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30 Nov 1859
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1586. Add MS 52987 N

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‘The tempter’, drama in three acts by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 1 December 1859 for performance at the City of London. Keywords: gambling, debt, India, family relationships, military, navy, superstition, ghosts, robbery, murder, burglary, disguise, inheritance, duelling, disabled characters, i...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1 Dec 1859
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1587. Add MS 52987 O

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‘Harlequin and the little mouse who built his house in a Christmas cake’, pantomime by C. H. Hazlewood. Licence sent 14 December 1859 for performance at the Marylebone. Includes comic scenes. Front cover signed J. Cave, lessee, comic scenes signed Harry Bolton. Keywords: food, drinking, fai...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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14 Dec 1859
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1588. Add MS 52987 P

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‘Victorine’, opera in three acts by Edmund Falconer, music by A. Mellon. Licence sent 14 December 1859 for performance at Covent Garden on 19 December 1859. Extensive cuts noted in ink. Contains words to songs. Keywords: lodgers and boarding houses, French character names and settings, pove...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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14 Dec 1859
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1589. Add MS 52987 Q

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‘Puss in boots’, pantomime by J. V. Bridgeman. Licence sent 14 December 1859 for performance at Covent Garden on 26 December 1859. Stage directions underlined in red ink. Bound with three separate sets of comic scenes: ‘A perfectly original comic scene, Lion Inn and (?) pawnbrokers’, by Nels...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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14 Dec 1859
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1590. Add MS 52987 R

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Damon and Pythias, burlesque in one act by Frederick W. Burton. Printed. Licence sent 14 December 1859 for performance at the Soho. First performed by the New Oxford Dramatic Club. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that a line of text be omitted. Keywords: Greek mythology, b...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1859
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