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'Night and morning, or, She's very like her mother', by E. Falconer.
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Described as 'a serio-comic dramatic episode from a suppostitious medieval chronicle of one of the Ducal Sovereignties in Italy' on folio 1. Licence sent 8 January 1864 for performance at Drury Lane. MS in two hands. The attribution of the play to E. Falconer is taken from Nicoll, the name of th...
'Germans and French; or Incidents of the War of 1871', by John Thomas Douglass
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'Germans and French; or Incidents of the War of 1871', by John Thomas Douglass. Licence sent 2 March 1871 for performance at the Standard Theatre. 43 folios.
Play by G. Hastings, writer of plays; submitted: 1879 Play by Dionysius Lardner Boucicault formerly Boursiquot, called 'Dion Boucicault' and 'Lee Moreton'; actor and dramatist; submitted: 1879
Le Testament de César Girodot, by A. Belot and E. Villetard.
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Comedy in three acts. Licence sent 12 July 1867 for performance at St James's. Printed (n.d.). Dramatis personae together with the names of the original actors on folio 5v.
Comedietta in one act. Licence sent 30 June 1868 for performance at the Haymarket. The alias of the author, "Walter Gordon", noted on folio 1 together with his address. Dramatis personae with the names of the actors, the playwright among them, on folio 2.