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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 52929-53708

741. Add MS 52954 DD

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'Jack Sheppard', drama in three acts. Licence sent 11 July 1855 for performance at the Pavilion 13 July 1855. For another version see Add. 52955 J. Keywords: crime, poverty, widows, execution, working class characters, eighteenth-century settings, murder. ff. 67. Whitechapel; Middlesex Pav...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
11 Jul 1855
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1 item

742. Add MS 52954 E

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'A domestic story, or, A family picture', drama in two acts. Licence sent 3 May 1855 for performance at the Grecian Saloon. Signed by Ro. Conquest, actual and responsible manager. Also signed by W. B. Donne. Script not listed in Nicoll. Keywords: art and artists, aristocracy, French influe...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 May 1855
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1 item

743. Add MS 52954 EE

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Index ff. 2.
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1855
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1 item

744. Add MS 52954 F

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'The actress of Padua', play in four acts by John Brougham. Licence sent 3 May 1855 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 4 May 1855. First performed at the Broadway, New York 12 May 1852. Request for licence written and signed by J. B. Buckstone. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records t...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 May 1855
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1 item

745. Add MS 52954 G

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'Louis the XIVth, or, The organ boy of Savoy', drama in two acts. Licence sent 3 May 1855 for performance at the Britannia Saloon 3 April 1855. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the following stipulation: 'Act 2nd, scene last. Louis: "Listen what am I worth? Stella: "About 8 and 20 pieces of si...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 May 1855
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1 item

746. Add MS 52954 H

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Berta; a legend of the Hartzberg, comic opera in two acts by Hawley Smart. Printed. Licence sent 4 May 1855 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 7 May 1855. Request for licence written and signed by J. B. Buckstone. Keywords: Germany, mountain settings, festivals and celebration,...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1855
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1 item

747. Add MS 52954 I

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Il trovatore, lyric drama in four acts edited and translated by Manfredo Maggioni [for the music by Verdi]. Printed. Italian with English translation. Licence sent 10 May 1855 for performance at Covent Garden Opera. Publisher's list on back cover. This is a version of the original libretto ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
10 May 1855
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1 item

748. Add MS 52954 J

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'Temptation', drama in three acts by Josh Redworth. Licence sent 16 May 1855 for performance at the Theatre Royal Birmingham 16 May 1855. Signed by M. H. Simpson. Listed by Nicoll under ‘unknown authors’. Keywords: discipline, pubs and inns, murder, the supernatural, crime. ff. 25. London...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 May 1855
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1 item

749. Add MS 52954 K

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'Faust and Marguarite' [sic], romantic opera in three acts. Licence sent 16 May 1855 for performance at the Surrey 16 May 1855. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that 'Marguerite may be discovered kneeling, but not at the altar'. Keywords: education, the supernatural, Faust, sc...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 May 1855
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1 item

750. Add MS 52954 L

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'England and France in the days of chivalry, or, The brothers in arms', new grand spectacle in three acts by J. H. Stocqueler. Licence sent 21 May 1855 for performance at Astley's Amphitheatre, 28 May 1855. Signed by William Cooke, lessee and manager, and W. West, stage manager. Keywords: an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1855
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1 item