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12301. Add MS 52942 E

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'Sold to advantage!', farce in one act adapted from the French. Licence sent 7 September 1853 for performance at Sadlers Wells 7 November 1853. Title page signed by J. Wooler. For another version see Add. 52929 B. Keywords: theatre, the press, doctors and medicine, disfigurement. ff. 41. L...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Sep 1853
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1 item

12302. Add MS 52942 O

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'The discarded son', drama in three acts by B. N. Webster. Licence sent 5 October 1853 for performance at the Adelphi 6 October 1853. Request for licence written and signed by Benjamin Webster. Songs included in MS. Text written in more than one hand. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the st...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Oct 1853
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1 item

12303. Add MS 52943 U

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'Love's alarms', opera in one act by J. B. Buckstone (music by E. F. Fitzwilliam). Licence sent 14 November 1853 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 17 November 1853. Revisions, songs, stage directions and diagrams included. Keywords: aristocracy, military, bachelors, castles. f...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
14 Nov 1853
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1 item

12304. Add MS 52944 M

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'Harlequin and Tom Thumb, or, Gog and Magog and Mother Gooses golden goslings' (sic), pantomime. Licence sent 20 December 1853 for performance at Sadlers Wells 26 December 1853. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that a number of political allusions be omitted. Keywords: harlequ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Dec 1853
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1 item

12305. Add MS 52945 L

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Une turc pris dans une porte, ‘scenes de la vie nocturne, mêlées de couplets’. Printed (Paris; (as The Spanish dancers, or, Fans and fandangoes),, 1849). French. Licence sent 31 January 1854 for performance at the Soho Theatre. Original first performance at Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques 17...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
31 Jan 1854
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1 item

12306. Add MS 52946 R

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Filles de marbre, drama in five acts by Théodore Barrière and ‘M. Lambert-Thiboust’ (i.e. P. A. A. Thiboust. Printed (Paris; Bibliothèque dramatique; théâtre moderne, 1853). French. Licence sent 25 March 1854 for performance at the Soho Theatre. Original first performance at Théâtre du Vaud...
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Western Manuscripts
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French
Date Range:
25 Mar 1854
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1 item

12307. Add MS 52947 I

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'Knights of the round table', drama in five acts. Licence sent 15 May 1854 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 20 May 1854. Signed by J. B. Buckstone. Keywords: gambling, London, gypsies, food and dining, drinking and drunkenness, aristocracy, Restoration England, military, treas...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1854
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1 item

12308. Add MS 52948 O

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'The lamplighter', drama in two acts. Licence sent 30 June 1854 for performance at the Standard 30 June 1854. Signed by John Douglass. For another version see Add. 52948 C. Keywords: Boston, orphans, working class characters, poverty, domestic violence, education, illness, doctors and medic...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1854
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1 item

12309. Add MS 52953 S

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'The new (Hay-) market spring meeting', extravaganza in one act by J. R. Planché. Licence sent 31 March 1855 for performance at the Haymarket 9 April 1855. Request for licence written and signed by J. B. Buckstone. Songs included in MS. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 22, no. 317. Keywords: thea...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1855
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1 item

12310. Add MS 52953 X

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'King Queer and his daughters three', extravaganza burlesque in one act by J. Halford and C. J. Collins. Licence sent 4 April 1855 for performance at the Strand 9 April 1855. Songs included in MS. Keywords: literature and literary reference, family relationships, aristocracy, London, suicide...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Apr 1855
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1 item