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‘Take care of Dowb—’, a farce in one act by J. M. Morton. Licence sent 2 November 1857 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 23 November 1857. Revisions throughout the text. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 34, no. 498. Keywords: flirtation, letters, gardens, abandonment, travel, adultery...
'Eight hours by the seaside, or, A day in Brighton', farce in one act by William Sawyer. Licence sent 28 November 1857 for performance at the Theatre Royal Brighton 18 November 1857. Cover signed H. N. Chart. Keywords: seaside settings, sport, trains and rail travel, stagecraft. ff. 14. Wi...
'Next of kin', comedietta in two acts by E. Falconer. Licence sent 4 April 1860 for performance at the Lyceum 9 April 1860. Contains calls, scene changes and cuts in ink, stage directions in pencil. A previous version of the play was produced at Birmingham, for which see Add. 52990 F. Publi...
'Does he love me?', comedy in three acts by E. Falconer. Licence sent 19 June 1860 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Signed Thos. Pugh (?). MS copied in more than one hand, numbered cues and amendments added in pencil. Published in Lacy's, vol. 100, no. 1486. Keywords: arist...
'The babes in the wood', comedy in three acts by Tom Taylor. Licence sent 9 November 1860 for performance at the Haymarket. Cuts, cues and stage directions in red ink and pencil, list of properties on inside front cover. MS. written in more than one hand. Published in Lacy's, vol. 50, no. 73...
'Night, or, The perils of the Alps', drama in two acts by J. T. Douglass. Licence sent 24 January 1863 for performance at the Victoria. Imperfect text, with final unnumbered act remaining. Front cover indicates 'a drama in two acts' amended in ink from "a drama in three acts". LCO Day Book ...
The House that Jack Built!, or, Harlequin Jack, the Three Witches, and the Fairy King of the Bower of Bouquets, by W. S. Branson.
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Pantomime. Licence sent 4 January 1864 for performance at the Adelphi Theatre, Liverpool. Printed by W. McCall, Cartwright Place, Liverpool. (1863). Nicoll lists the play as author unknown but the script has 'written by Mr W. S. Branson' added in ink below the title on folio 2. Mr Branson is als...
Tambour battant, comédie-vaudeville in one act by A. Decourcelle, Théodore Barrière and L. Morand. Printed (Paris: Bibliothèque dramatique; théâtre moderne, 1851). French. Licence sent 4 February 1853 for performance at the St. James’s. Original first performance at Théâtre de la Montansier...
'Lashed to the helm, or, The strike at the mill and the mutineers', by C. H. Hazlewood.
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Drama in two acts. Licence sent 14 May 1864 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1, together with an alternative title 'Wife, children and friends' has been crossed through. The name of the dramatist is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attri...
'The cast away, or, The thorny path, or, The orphan's high-born husband', by C. H. Hazlewood.
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Drama in a prologue and two acts. Licence sent 26 July 1865 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. Nicoll lists the play with the same title but with 'cast away' amended to 'castaway' and with the date of performance given as 12 March 1866. LCO ...