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Les Jocrisses de l'Amour, by T. Barrière and L. Thiboust.
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Comedy in three acts. Licence sent 4 May 1868 for performance at the St James's. Printed by Michel Lévy Frères, La Librairie Nouvelle (1865). Dramatis personae with the original cast on folio 3v.
'Light o' love, or, Paying for the past', by H. F. Saville.
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Drama in three acts. Licence sent 12 April 1870 for performance at the Alexandra Theatre, Liverpool. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for the line 'Peace on Earth. Good will among men and all that sort of twaddle' to be omitted. The name Henry F. Saville appears on folios 49 and 89 (the beginnin...
'Edwin and Angelina; or, The Children of Mystery', by H.L.Walford
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'Edwin and Angelina; or, The Children of Mystery', a domestic melodramatic burlesque by H.L.Walford. Licence sent 28 April 1871 for a performance at The Gallery of Illustration. 78 folios.
'It's Never too Late to Repent', by George Lewis. Play recommended 18 August 1875 for a licence to perform at the Britannia Theatre, London. 36 folios.
'A pet of the public', farce in one act by Edward Stirling. Licence sent 3 November 1853 for performance at the Strand 7 November 1853. Request for licence written and signed by J. W. Allcroft. Songs included in MS. Published in Lacy's, vol. 12, no. 180. Keywords: French influence, theatre...
'Tit for tat', comedietta in two acts by F. Talfourd and A. S. Wigan. Licence sent 10 January 1855 for performance at the Olympic 22 January 1855. Revisions throughout. Published in Lacy's, vol. 17, no. 252. Keywords: food and dining, fashion, lodgers and boarding houses, flirtation, debt a...
'Take that girl away!', farce in two acts by L. S. Buckingham. Licence sent 2 March 1855 for performance at the Lyceum 3 March 1855. Published in Lacy's, vol. 18, no. 261. Keywords: food and dining, London, fashion, art and artists, imprisonment. ff. 45. Leicester Silk Buckingham, dramatis...