'A tenant for life', farce in one act by W. Phelps. Licence sent 26 October 1858 for performance at Sadlers Wells 30 October 1858. Actors' names listed alongside dramatis personae. Keywords: bachelors, servants, lodgers, eviction, lawyers, widows, courtship, engagement, letters, popular mus...
‘Carlo Leoni, or, The Irish boy and the gipsy girl’ (altered from 'Carlo Leoni, or, The children of the stars’), drama in two acts by C. H. Hazlewood. Licence sent 7 March 1859 for performance at the Britannia. Original title crossed out and amended in ink. Keywords: Italian settings, Spani...
Les faux bonshommes, comedy in four acts by Théodore Barrière and Ernest Capendu. Printed. French. Licence sent 24 March 1859 for performance at the St James’s. Not listed in Nicoll. Keywords: art and artists, business and finance, inheritance, family relationships, courtship, marital rel...
Prison and palace, comic drama in two acts by J. Palgrave Simpson. Licence sent 5 August 1859 for performance at the Canterbury. Printed for private circulation in an edition of Lacy’s. Back cover signed Hon. S.(?) Ponsonby. First performed at Thurloe Place West, Brompton, February, 1853. ...
‘The magic toys’, ballet farce in one act by J. Oxenford. Licence sent 28 September 1859 for performance at the St. James’s. Signed J. Oxenford on front cover. ‘Miss L. Thompson’ pencilled next to list of dramatis personae. Set design inside front cover in ink. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 42...
'Sisterly service', comedietta in one act by J. P. Wooler. Licence sent 8 February 1860 for performance at the Strand. MS written in more than one hand; see note 'H. Chater scripsit' on f. . LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. Published in Lacy's, vol...
'I will if you will', farce in one act by James Bruton. Licence sent 13 February 1860 for performance at the St James's. Described on the front cover as 'A broad farce in one act and one scene'. Keywords: tailors, burglars, bachelors, rural police, spinsters, wards, cross-dressing, inheritan...
'Uncle Zachary', play in two acts by John Oxenford. Licence sent 29 February 1860 for performance at the Olympic. Published in Lacy's, vol. 45, no. 667. Keywords: family relationships, London, science, education, class, government officials, inheritance, farms, drunkenness, engagements, tabl...
'The gunmaker of Moscow, or, The black monk and the Emperor's secret', drama in two acts by C. H. Hazlewood. Licence sent 9 March 1860 for performance at the Britannia. Name of Samuel Lane, the theatre proprietor, noted on the script. The present script is a version of the play The gunmaker ...
Le cheveu blanc, comedy in one act in prose by Octave Feuillet. Printed (Michel Lévy, 1860.) French. Licence sent 10 May 1860 for performance at the St James's. First performed at the Gymnase, Paris, 16 March 1860. Publisher's catalogue attached; publisher's advertisement on back cover. N...