‘The foundlings’, comic drama in five acts by J. B. Buckstone. Licence sent 15 June 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 16 June 1852. Request for licence written on title-page is unsigned, but in a hand that appears to be Benjamin Webster’s. Keywords: orphans, illegitimacy, ...
‘The chameleon, or, The art of pleasing’, comic drama in one act by William Brough. Licence sent 1 July 1852 for performance at Sadler’s Wells 3 July 1852. Text written in more than one hand. Red ink is used on title page. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that a few words and...
‘The mysterious lady’ (‘Wealth makes the man’), altered from ‘The Fitzapes’, drama in two acts by J. R. Planché. Licence sent 16 October 1852 for performance at the Lyceum 18 October 1852. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 8, no. 465. Keywords: English characters, Antwerp, Flanders, English Civil Wa...