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12571. Add MS 52992 BB

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Un fils de famille, comedy-vaudeville in three acts in prose by 'MM. Bayard et Bieville' (i.e., J. F. A. Bayard and C. H. E. E. Desnoyers de Biéville). Printed (Michel Levy Frères, n.d.) French. Licence sent 10 May 1860 for performance at the St James's. Inscriptions and official stamps on ...
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Western Manuscripts
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French
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10 May 1860
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1 item

12572. Add MS 53014 Z

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'The colleen bawn settled at last', farce in one act by W. Brough and A. Halliday. Licence sent 1 July 1862 for to be performed at the Lyceum on 5 July. Actors’ names listed next to dramatis personæ. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 59, no. 819. See also Add. 52995 B, 52995 T, 52996 M, 53002 M, 53...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1 Jul 1862
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1 item

12573. Add MS 53019 T

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'A valentine, a compliment of the season', play in one act by W. Brough and 'A. Halliday' (i.e. A. H. Duff). Licence sent 9 February 1863 for performance at the Adelphi. Name of B[enjamin] Webster (the theatre lessee and manager) noted on the script. Published as A Valentine ! in Lacy's, vol...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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9 Feb 1863
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1 item

12574. Add MS 52935 BB

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'Masks and faces, or, Both sides of the curtain’, comedy in two acts. Licence sent 8 November 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 5 November 1852. Request for licence written and signed by Benjamin Webster. For a related play see Add. 52958 W. Keywords: cross-dressing, the...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Nov 1852
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1 item

12575. Add MS 52936 Y

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'The good woman in the wood', Christmas piece in two acts by J. R. Planché. Licence sent 23 December 1852 for performance at the Lyceum 27 December 1852. Songs sent separately make up first eight pages of the MS. Keywords: family relationships, animals, Uncle Tom's Cabin, property, fairies a...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Dec 1852
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1 item

12576. Add MS 52938 E

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Le parapluie de Damoclès, comédie in two acts by C. V. Varin, Gustave Harmant and — Lehmann. Printed (Paris: Bibliothèque théâtral: auteurs contemporains, 1852). French. Licence sent 21 February 1853 for performance at the St. James’s. Original first performance at the Théâtre du Palais-Roy...
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Western Manuscripts
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French
Date Range:
21 Feb 1853
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1 item

12577. Add MS 52942 R

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Roquelaure, ou, L'homme le plus laid de France', vaudeville in four acts by A. de Leuven, C. de Livry and ‘Monsieur Chérie’. Printed. French. Licence sent 6 October 1853 for performance at the Soho Theatre. Songs are crossed out throughout MS. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulatio...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
6 Oct 1853
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1 item

12578. Add MS 52953 M

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'The cricket on the hearth', drama in one act and three tableaux adapted from Dickens's Christmas tale by Joseph Halford. Licence sent 16 March 1855 for performance at the Strand 19 March 1855. Keywords: literature and literary reference, festivals and celebration, working class characters, ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1855
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1 item

12579. Add MS 52959 D

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‘Retribution’, domestic drama in four acts by Tom Taylor, based on Le loi de talion by Charles de Bernard. Licence sent 26 March 1856 for performance at the Olympic 12 May 1856. Not listed in LCO Day Book Add. 53073. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 27, no. 391. Keywords: French influence, educati...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Mar 1856
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1 item

12580. Add MS 52963 L

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Badekuren, comedy in one act by G. H. Gans, Edler Herr zu Putlitz. Printed (1850). Licensed for performance 13 December 1856, almost certainly at the St James’s, although this is not listed in the LCO Day Book Add. 53073. The play, Ein Hausmittel, another one-act comedy, is bound with Badekure...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
13 Dec 1856
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1 item