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8411. Add MS 52949 V

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'The Spanish dancers, or, The jota Arroganese', terpsichorean burletta in one act by Charles Selby. Licence sent 12 October 1854 for performance at the St. James’s 16 October 1854. Signed by Laura Seymour. Also published in Lacy's, vol. 49, no. 736, under the title The Spanish dancers, or, F...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
12 Oct 1854
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1 item

8412. Add MS 52949 Z

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'The trustee', comedy in two acts. Licence sent 17 October 1854 for performance at the Olympic 24 October 1854. Written in a number of different hands with some revisions pasted in. Keywords: French influence, aristocracy, festival and celebration, family relationships. ff. 69. Anon, write...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
17 Oct 1854
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1 item

8413. Add MS 52950 J

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'Elie and Elode, or, The gipsies of Castile', drama in two acts. Licence sent 31 October 1854 for performance at the Britannia Saloon the same day. Signed by Samuel Lane, proprietor. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. Keywords: Spain, gypsies, family ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1854
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1 item

8414. Add MS 52950 Q

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'The transformed', drama in two acts. Licence sent 11 November 1854 for performance at the Surrey 20 November 1854. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. Keywords: food and dining, the press, death, inheritance, food and dining, festival and celebration, ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
11 Nov 1854
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1 item

8415. Add MS 52952 E

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'Introduced speeches and scenes in the drama of “The black rainbow”. Licence sent 27 January 1855 for performance at the Queen's 27 January 1855. Signed by C. J. James. Keywords: Russian characters, festivals and celebration, aristocracy, dance. ff. 23. London; Secular Institutions. Theatr...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jan 1855
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1 item

8416. Add MS 52952 O

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'Do shake hands', farce in one act. Licence sent 6 February 1855 for performance at the Lyceum 9 February 1855. Revisions throughout text. Writing style alternates among at least three different hands throughout. Keywords: musicians, duelling, military, flirtation. ff. 47. London; Secular...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1855
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1 item

8417. Add MS 52953 V

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'The fairy tales of Mother Goose', fairy spectacle in one act. Licence sent 2 April 1855 for performance at the Adelphi 9 April 1855. Request for licence written and signed by Benjamin Webster. Revisions throughout. Written in two different hands. Keywords: fairies and other supernatural c...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Apr 1855
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1 item

8418. Add MS 52954 A

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'Toddles and Fogg', farce in one act. Licence sent 23 April 1855 for performance at the Surrey 3 April 1855. Diagram included. Keywords: flirtation, travel, illness, science and technology, trains and rail travel. ff. 23. London; Secular Institutions. Theatres. Surrey Theatre: 'Toddles and...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1855
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1 item

8419. Add MS 52954 DD

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'Jack Sheppard', drama in three acts. Licence sent 11 July 1855 for performance at the Pavilion 13 July 1855. For another version see Add. 52955 J. Keywords: crime, poverty, widows, execution, working class characters, eighteenth-century settings, murder. ff. 67. Whitechapel; Middlesex Pav...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jul 1855
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1 item

8420. Add MS 52955 F

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'The fletch of bacon, or, The custom of Dunmow', farcical sketch in one act. Licence sent 23 July 1855 for performance at the Strand 23 July 1855. For another version see Add. 52955 O. Not listed in Nicoll. Keywords: bachelors, spinsters, law and the legal profession, festivals and celebrat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jul 1855
Extent:
1 item