‘The cloud of life, or, The blind man of the Pyrenees’, drama in three acts by T. Mead. Licence sent 9 May 1859 for performance at the Grecian. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records a number of stipulations to omit parts of the text. Keywords: Spanish settings and characters, mountain settings, c...
‘Ivanhoe’, drama in two acts by W. E. Suter. Licence sent 4 June 1859 for performance at the Queen’s. Signed W. E. Suter at end of acts one and two (crossed out in ink at end of act two). Signed G. Hastings, copyists. Cuts crossed out in ink. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation...
‘A school for coquettes’, comedietta in two acts by J. P. Simpson. Licence sent 4 July 1859 to be performed on 9 July 1859 at the Strand. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 41, no. 610. Keywords: aristocracy, artists, widows, flirtation, disguise, servants, urban/rural contrast, marital separation, ...
‘Cartouche, or, The six escapes of a robber’, drama in three acts by W. Travers. Licence sent 11 July 1859 for performance at the City of London Theatre. See also Add. 52997 C. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 76, no. 1031. Considerable variation between the MS and Lacy’s versions. Keywords: Fre...
'Deeds of darkness', drama in two acts by W. E. Suter. Licence sent 8 May 1860 for performance at the Queen's on 12 May 1860. Cover signed C. J. James. Each act signed W. E. Suter. Cuts made in ink. Acts bound in reverse order. Contains words to songs. Keywords: treason, political revolu...
'Shoals and quicksands of youth, or, Deeds and doings in the world of London', drama in two acts by W. Seaman. Licence sent 22 May 1860 for performance at the Victoria on 4 June 1860. Note of application for licence signed 'I. Cohen' for J. Johnson Towers, the theatre manager. On cover page....
'House on the bridge of Notre Dame', drama in three acts by M. R. Lacy. Licence sent 7 February 1861 for performance at the Lyceum. Adapted from the French of T. Barrière and H de Kock. This MS copy appears to have been used as an exhibit in a court case concerning the play, the following st...
'Black sheep', comedy in three acts by J. S. Coyne. Licence sent 18 April 1861 for performance on 22 April at the Haymarket. Actors’ names listed next to dramatis personæ. Cues and stage positions marked in pencil, amendments in red pencil, cuts in ink. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 51, no. 751...
'The idiot of the mountain', drama in three acts by W. E. Suter. Licence sent 2 September 1861 for performance at the Surrey on 7 September 1861. Cues underlined in red ink. Adapted from the French of MM. Eugène Grangé and 'Lambert Thiboust' (i.e. P. A. A. Thiboust). Contains words for song...
'The old toll house', drama in two acts by J. H. Cave. Licence sent 24 September 1861 for performance at the Marylebone. Authorship attributed to C. H. Hazlewood in Nicoll. ff. 20. J. H. Cave: Play by, submitted for licence: 1961.