'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...
'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...
'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...
'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...
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....
'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...
'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...
'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...
'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...