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12031. Add MS 52954 B

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'Food for gossip', comedy in three acts translated and adapted from the Italian ‘Oste e non oste’, ‘expressly for the present occasion’ by Alfred Elwes. Licence sent 23 April 1855 for performance at the Soho Theatre 23 April 1855. Playbill bound in with the script which lists ‘Miss Kelly's Th...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1855
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1 item

12032. Add MS 52954 X

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L'auberge de Schawasbach, pièce in one act by Alexandre Dumas. Printed (1850). French. Licence sent 21 June 1855 for performance at the Soho Theatre. Original first performance at Théâtre de la Gaité 20 March 1850. Publisher's advertising at front and back. Keywords: peasants, French infl...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Jun 1855
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1 item

12033. Add MS 52957 E

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'The northern imp, or, Harlequin and the spirit of freedom', pantomime. Licence sent 4 December 1855 for performance at the Albert & Garrick Royal Amphitheatre 4 December 1855. Signed L. Levy. Another unidentifiable signature appears on cover. Songs included in MS. LCO Day Book Add. 5...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
4 Dec 1855
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1 item

12034. Add MS 52957 P

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'The fox and the grapes or, Harlequin and old Esop's fables', pantomime. Licence sent 17 December 1855 for performance at the City of London 26 December 1855. Signed by Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: animals, fairies and other supernatural creatures, Harlequinade, London, working ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
17 Dec 1855
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1 item

12035. Add MS 52960 E

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‘Music hath charms’, farce in one act by David Fisher. Licence sent 27 June 1856 for performance at the Princess 7 July 1856. Speaking cues and stage directions are underlined in red. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 63. Keywords: French influence, lodgers and boarding houses, dance. ff. 18. Davi...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1856
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1 item

12036. Add MS 52960 Z

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‘First love and false hearts, or, Sunbeams and shadows’, drama in two acts by C. Hazelwood. Licence sent 14 August 1856 for performance at City of London 14 August 1856. Cover signed Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: family relationships, discipline, land and farming, drinking and dr...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Aug 1856
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1 item

12037. Add MS 52962 O

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‘A family failing’, farce in one act by J. Oxenford. Licence sent 3 November 1856 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 17 November 1856. Request for licence signed by J.B. Buckstone. Title page signed John Oxenford with address. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 29, no. 424. Keywords: law...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1856
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1 item

12038. Add MS 52963 K

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Durch!, comedy in one act by Rudolph Genée. Printed (1855). German. Licence sent 13 December 1856 for performance at the St James’s. Includes advertising. ff. 25. Rudolph Genée, writer of plays: London; Secular Institutions. Theatres. St James' Theatre: Durch! comedy in one act by Rudolph...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
13 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

12039. Add MS 52963 X

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‘Conrad and Medora, or, Harlequin Little Fairy at bottom of the sea’, pantomime by William Brough, based on the ballet ‘Le corsaire’. Licence sent 22 December 1856 for performance at the Lyceum 26 December 1856. Songs included in MS. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 29, no. 423, with the alternativ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1856
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1 item

12040. Add MS 52965 B

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'The red man of Hammelberg, or, The price of life' ('The red man, or The headsman'), drama in two acts by William Seaman. Licence sent 1 March 1857 for performance at the Victoria the same day. Request for licence signed J. J. Towers. Some revisions to text. Keywords: German influence, poli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1857
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1 item