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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...
'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...
‘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...
'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...
'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...
'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 ...
'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...
'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...
'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...
'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...