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12291. Add MS 52933 R

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Add MS 52933 R
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Casilda’, opera in four acts. Printed (circa 1852); possibly proof copy. Italian. Licence sent 6 August 1852 for performance at Her Majesty’s. Back of MS signed by a ‘Mr. Jennings’. There is one entry in LCO Day Book Add. 53703 covering both Add. 52933 R and 52933 S. Keywords: gypsies, ur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
6 Aug 1852
Extent:
1 item

12292. Add MS 52936 H

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'Harlequin Cherry and the fair star, or, The green bird, the dancing waters and the singing tree', comic pantomime by George Ellis. Cover signed by manager. Licence sent 6 December 1852 for performance at the Princess's 27 December 1852. Extensive stage directions. Songs included in MS. Not...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1852
Extent:
1 item

12293. Add MS 52937 M

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‘The guardian spirit’, drama in three acts by 'Hugo Vamp' (i.e. J. R. O’Neill), ‘partially founded upon Paul de Kock’s celebrated novel The banker of Paris’. Licence sent 10 February 1853 for performance at the Marylebone. Title page signed both ‘Hugo Vamp’ and J. R. O’Neill. Elaborate sketch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1853
Extent:
1 item

12294. Add MS 52938 B

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'Life in Australia, from our own correspondent’, drama in three acts by Mrs. Alfred Phillips. Licence sent 17 February 1853 for performance at the Olympic 21 February 1853. Different types of paper suggest some revisions. Keywords: Ireland, festivals and celebration, working class characters...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1853
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1 item

12295. Add MS 52938 Y

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'The talisman, or, Richard Coeur de Lion and the Knight of the Couchant Leopard’, burlesque in two acts. Licence sent 24 March 1853 for performance at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane 28 March 1853. Revisions throughout. Performed various times from the late eighteenth century on. Keywords: the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Mar 1853
Extent:
1 item

12296. Add MS 52939 E

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'Mohammed’, drama in two acts altered and arranged by Mr Kean Buchanan from Geo. Miles (of Baltimore, USA) tragedy of the same name (sic). Licence sent 8 April 1853 for performance at the Pavilion 8 April 1853. 'Examiner of Plays, 38 Dean Street, Soho' written on title page. Keywords: Muslims ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1853
Extent:
1 item

12297. Add MS 52939 Z

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'The mousetrap’, comedy in three acts by Rev. James White. Licence sent 9 May 1853 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 14 May 1853. Request for licence written and signed by John Baldwin Buckstone. Keywords: orphans, family relationships, age and ageing, gypsies, law and the lega...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1853
Extent:
1 item

12298. Add MS 52940 K

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'Bleak House', drama in two acts by James Elphinstone and Frederic Neale. Licence sent 1 June 1853 for performance at the City of London 6 June 1853. Signed by Austin Lee. For other versions see Add. 52940 M, a version by an unnamed author from 1854, by G. Lander from 1876, by E. Thorne from...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1853
Extent:
1 item

12299. Add MS 52941 M

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'Sardanapalus, or, The fast king of Assyria', burlesque in one act by G. Abbott à Beckett and Mark Lemon. Licence sent 16 July 1853 for performance at the Adelphi 21 July 1853. Request for licence written and signed by Benjamin Webster. Keywords: aristocracy, polygamy, literature and literar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jul 1853
Extent:
1 item

12300. Add MS 52942 D

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'A model husband', farce in one act. Licence sent 6 September 1853 for performance at Sadlers Wells. Title page is signed. Corrections in blue ink. Keywords: servants, food and dining, family relationships, Devon, military. ff. 30. London. Secular Institutions. Theatres. Sadler's Wells Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1853
Extent:
1 item