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791. Add MS 52956 A-V

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Lord Chamberlain's Plays, 1852 - 1866. September - October 1855 .
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
22 items

792. Add MS 52956 B

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'Nitocris, or, The Ethiop's vengeance', grand original historical play in five acts by Edward Fitzball. Licence sent 8 September 1855 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 8 October 1855. Signed by E. T. Smith. "Stage copy" written on title page. A few pages in a different hand a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

793. Add MS 52956 C

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'A sister's wrongs, or, The dark hour before dawn', drama in two acts. Licence sent 8 September 1855 for performance at the Britannia Saloon 8 September 1855. Signed by Samuel Lane, proprietor. Keywords: crime, police, eighteenth-century settings, sport, pubs and inns, aristocracy, literatur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

794. Add MS 52956 D

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'The dead and the living, or, A little of everything', drama in five acts, adapted from the Polish by Charles de Firlej Bielanski. Licence sent 8 September 1855 for performance at Edinburgh 8 September 1855. Songs included in MS. Nicoll lists the play under ‘unknown authors’. Keywords: aris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

795. Add MS 52956 E

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'Eliza Fenning, the victim of circumstances', drama in two acts. Licence sent 8 September 1855 for performance at the Britannia Saloon 8 September 1855. Signed by Samuel Lane, proprietor. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that 'there must be no representation of an execution on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

796. Add MS 52956 F

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Glasgow in 1300, drama in two acts. Printed. Licence sent 11 September 1855 for performance at the Queen's Theatre, Edinburgh, 11 November 1855. Signed by J. W. Black, lessee and manager. Keywords: Scotland, provincial theatre, revolution, military, prisons and prisoners, disguise. ff. 14....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

797. Add MS 52956 G

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'Turpin's ride to York, or, The heir of Rookwood!', an equestrian drama in two acts. Licence sent 11 September 1855 for performance at Astley's Amphitheatre, 17 September 1855. Signed by W. William Cooke, manager and Wm. West, stage manager. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

798. Add MS 52956 H

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'Don't judge by appearances', farce in one act by J. M. Morton. Licence sent 11 September 1855 for performance at the Princess’s 22 October 1855. Keywords: servants, family relationships, orphans, sport, military. ff. 20. John Maddison Morton, dramatist: London; Secular Institutions. Theatr...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

799. Add MS 52956 I

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'The little treasure', comedy in two acts by A. G. Harris. Licence sent 8 October 1855 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 11 October 1855. Request for licence written and signed by J. B. Buckstone. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that several lines be omitted. Pu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

800. 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