'Trap for trap, or, The fly and the web', by A. C. Troughton.
Scope & Content:
Comedy in two acts. Licence sent 31 January 1866 for performance at the Strand. Dramatis personae together with the names of the actors on folio 2. Nicoll lists the play with the title as simply 'The fly and the web'. The play was also published by Lacy's (vol 69).
Papillonetta, or, the prince, the butterfly and the beetle, by W. Brough.
Scope & Content:
An original burlesque extravaganza. Licence sent 4 June 1866 for performance at Sadler's Wells. Printed (n.d.). Lacy's Acting Edition (Vol 68, no 1010). Dramatis personae together with the names of the actors on folios 2v-3. Nicoll lists the play as previously performed at the Prince of Wales's,...
'The masked man, or, The victim of the Star Chamber', by E. Towers.
Scope & Content:
Romantic drama in two acts. Licence sent 21 July 1866 for performance at the Effingham. Mr Morris Abrahams is noted above the details of the theatre and an alternative title for the play, 'Clement Lanyere, or, The masked man' has been crossed through on folio 1. MS in two hands. Nicoll lists the...
'Life in the coal pits, or, Self doomed', by J. C. Levey.
Scope & Content:
Drama in a prologue and three acts. Licence sent 25 February 1867 for performance at the Victoria. The date of intended representation noted as Tuesday 26 February 1867 on folio 1. The attribution of the play to J. C. Levey is taken from Nicoll, the name of the dramatist not being recorded on the...
'The shamrock of Ireland, or, Flower of Erin', by J. B. Howe.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 10 May 1867 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. The attribution of the play to J. B. Howe is taken from Nicoll, the name of the dramatist not being recorded on the script.
'The marriage certificate, or, A mother's honour', by C. H. Hazlewood.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 24 May 1867 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. An alternative title, 'The spinning wheel', has been struck through. The attribution of the play to C. H. Hazlewood is taken from Nicoll, the name of the dramatis...
'Scarlet Dick, or, The road and its riders', by J. B. Howe.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 20 July 1867 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. Nicoll lists the play with the alternative title 'The road and the riders'.
'Lion limb, or, The King of the South Sea Islands', by C. Pitt.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 12 September 1867 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. Acts I and II in separate hands. The name and address: 'Rev Charles E. Donne, Vicarage, Faversham, Kent' noted on folio 27v.
'The dagger and the cross, or, The gibbet of Montfauçon', by B. Hill.
Scope & Content:
Drama in four acts. Licence sent 7 October 1867 for performance at the Grecian. Mr B. O. Conquest [Benjamin Oliver Conquest] noted as actual and responsible manager on folio 1, together with the date of intended production - 10 October 1867. The attribution of the play to B. Hill is taken from N...