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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 52929-53708

281. Add MS 52938 R

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'Leaves from the life! And lays from the lyre! Of William Shakespeare!' a historical, musical and illustrative lecture’. Licence sent 9 March 1853 for performance at Sadlers Wells. Written in different hands and on different types of paper. Keywords: literature and literary reference, dance,...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Mar 1853
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1 item

282. Add MS 52938 S

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'Marco Spada’, drama in three acts. Licence sent 15 March 1853 for performance at the Princess’s 28 March 1853. Written in different hands. For other versions see Add. 52938 Z, 52939 D and 52940 D. Published in Lacy's, vol. 10, no. 138. Keywords: castles, Rome, Italian influence, aristocra...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1853
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1 item

283. Add MS 52938 T

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'Our Nelly’, a domestic drama in two acts. Licence sent 21 March 1853 for performance at the Surrey 28 March 1853. Signed by Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. Songs included in MS. One loose sheet with a song is inserted. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitt...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1853
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1 item

284. Add MS 52938 U

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'The enchanted wives, and the dream spirits’, burlesque in one act. Licence sent 21 March 1853 for performance at the Grecian Saloon 28 March 1853. Signed by manager, but name illegible. Written on different types of paper. Songs included in MS. Keywords: fairies and other supernatural cre...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1853
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1 item

285. Add MS 52938 V

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'The tender chord, or, How to touch the ladies' hearts’, a vaudeville in one act adapted from the French by Charles A. Somerset. Licence sent 23 March 1853 for performance at the Grecian Saloon 28 March 1853. Signed by manager, but name illegible. Songs included in MS. For a French version ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Mar 1853
Extent:
1 item

286. Add MS 52938 W

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'Adelphi fare, three removes and a desert’, burlesque prelude in one act. Licence sent 28 March 1853 for performance at the Adelphi 28 March 1853. Request for licence written and signed by Benjamin Webster. Text written in different hands. Revisions throughout. Keywords: theatre, working w...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1853
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1 item

287. Add MS 52938 X

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'Mr Buckstone's ascent of Mount Parnassus’, burlesque prelude in one act by J. R. Planché. Licence sent 23 March 1853 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 28 March 1853. Request for licence signed by J. B. Buckstone. Songs included in MS. Published in Lacy's, vol. 10, no. 141. Ke...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Mar 1853
Extent:
1 item

288. Add MS 52938 Y

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'The talisman, or, Richard Coeur de Lion and the Knight of the Couchant Leopard’, burlesque in two acts. Licence sent 24 March 1853 for performance at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane 28 March 1853. Revisions throughout. Performed various times from the late eighteenth century on. Keywords: the...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Mar 1853
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1 item

289. Add MS 52938 Z

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'Salvatori (altered from ‘Marco Spada’). or, The bandit's daughter’, drama in three acts by Morris Barnett. Licence sent 23 March 1853 for performance at the Olympic 28 March 1853. Signed by Morris Barnett and W. Farren. 'Marco Spada' written on title page and crossed out. Revisions through...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Mar 1853
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1 item

290. Add MS 52939 A

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'Elopements in high life’, comedy in five acts by Robert Sullivan. Licence sent 1 April 1853 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 7 April 1853. Request for licence written and signed by J. Baldwin Buckstone. Published in Lacy's, vol. 10, no. 143. Keywords: Jews and Judaism, debt ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1853
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1 item