‘Will o’ the wisp, or, The doomed of Dyneley Chase’, drama in two acts by J. B. Johnstone. Licence sent 25 February 1859 to be performed on 28 February 1859 at the Effingham Saloon. Cover signed Morris AbrahaMS See also Add. 52979 S. Keywords: legend, superstition, murder, poaching, burglar...
‘St. Giles’s Overreach, or, A new way old debts to pay’, burlesque in one act by G. W. Simms. Licence sent 24 March 1859 to be performed 31 March 1859 at the Victoria. Cover signed and text copied by Isaac Cohen. Listed as ‘Sir Giles Overreach’ in both Nicoll and LCO Day Book Add. 52703. Wo...
‘The eve of St. John, or, The water spirit and the magic axe’, drama in two acts by William Seaman. Licence sent 9 June 1859 for performance at the Britannia. Keywords: German settings, Spanish influence, legends, superstition, dance, ballet, mothers, sons, spirits, festivals, nobility, wate...
‘Give me my wife’, farce in one act by W. E. Suter. Licence sent 9 June 1859 for performance at the Grecian. Signed W. E. Suter. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation to omit all oaths. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 75, no. 1115. Keywords: spinsters, inheritance, marital relationshi...
‘A husband to order’, farce in two acts by J. M. Morton. Licence sent 11 October 1859 for performance at the Olympic. Some amendments in ink. Adapted from the French play, ‘Un mariage sous l’Empire’. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 43, no. 632. Keywords: French settings and character names, post...
‘What will he do with it?’, drama in three acts by F. L. Phillips. Licence sent 17 October 1859 for performance at the Surrey. Bound in newspaper. Based on the novel ‘What will he do with it’ by ‘Pisistratus Caxton’ (i.e., Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton), Leipzig, 1857 in four volumes, republished...
‘The patriot spy’, drama in three acts by F. L. Phillips. Licence sent 31 October 1859 for performance at the Surrey. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that 'Heaven' be substituted for 'God'. Keywords: Flanders, Brussels, Ghent, nobility, Spanish characters, Inquisition, balls,...
'A day at Boulogne, or, Run to earth' (Run to earth, or, A day at Boulogne), farce in one act by Marshall Hall. Licence sent 4 February 1860 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Brighton. Title pasted over the original title. Published as Run to earth, or, A day at Boulogne in Lacy's, suppl...
'Caught in a trap', comedy in three acts by Henry Holl. Licence sent 8 February 1860 for performance at the Princess's. Name of A. Harris [Augustus Glossop Harris], the theatre manager, noted on cover. MS written in more than one hand. Keywords: Spanish characters and setting, Toledo, trave...
'Life for life, or, The burden of guilt', drama in two acts by C. H. Hazlewood. Licence sent 13 August 1860 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted on the cover as proprietor of the theatre. Keywords: gypsies, inns, cards, drinking and drunkenness, Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge, ga...