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9911. Add MS 52984 F

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Dinorah, or, Le pardon de Ploërmel, opera in three acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, libretto by J. Barbier and M. Carré. Printed. Italian with English translation on facing pages. Date of licence given in LCO Day Book Add. 52703 as 31 July 1859 for performance at Covent Garden. Front cover missing...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1859
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1 item

9912. Add MS 52984 J

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‘Bertha Gray’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 27 August 1859 for performance at the Standard. MS copied by two different hands. Keywords: workhouses, poverty, upper-class characters, lower-class characters, milliners, cooks, orphans, family relationships, death, forgery, pictures, music. ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1859
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1 item

9913. Add MS 52984 N

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‘The angel of darkness’, drama in three acts by George Conquest. Licence sent 16 September 1859 for performance at the Grecian 26 September 1859. Signed B. O. Conquest, proprietor.and manager. Some actors' names pencilled next to list of dramatis personae. Additional text in pencil. See als...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1859
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1 item

9914. Add MS 52984 Q

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‘Ivy Hall’, drama in two acts by John Oxenford. Licence sent 21 September 1859 for performance at the Princess’s on 24 September 1859. Inside cover signed Augustus Harris. Signed E. and J. Hastings, copyists. Copied in more than one hand. Some actors’ names (including Henry Irving’s) penci...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1859
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1 item

9915. Add MS 52984 V

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‘Love and hunger’, farce in one act by J. M. Morton. Licence sent 26 September 1859 for performance at the Adelphi. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 42, no. 624. Differences between Lacy’s text and MS text. Keywords: inns, Reading, servants, travel, food and eating, family relationships, engageme...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1859
Extent:
1 item

9916. Add MS 52986 I

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‘Dinorah under difficulties’, farcical sketch in one act by William Brough. Licence sent 3 November 1859 for performance at the Adelphi. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 81, no. 1012. Lacy’s edition considerably expanded. See also 52985 A, Add. 52984 F and Add. 52992 C. Keywords: theatre, theatr...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1859
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1 item

9917. Add MS 52986 O

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‘Nursey Chickweed’, farce in one act by Thomas J. Williams. Licence sent 12 November 1859 for performance at the Princess’s. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 43, no. 637. Keywords: millers, children, rustics, nurses, food, elopement, appearance, education, dance, cross-dressing, clerks, mistaken id...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
12 Nov 1859
Extent:
1 item

9918. Add MS 52987 N

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‘The tempter’, drama in three acts by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 1 December 1859 for performance at the City of London. Keywords: gambling, debt, India, family relationships, military, navy, superstition, ghosts, robbery, murder, burglary, disguise, inheritance, duelling, disabled characters, i...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1859
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1 item

9919. Add MS 52987 O

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‘Harlequin and the little mouse who built his house in a Christmas cake’, pantomime by C. H. Hazlewood. Licence sent 14 December 1859 for performance at the Marylebone. Includes comic scenes. Front cover signed J. Cave, lessee, comic scenes signed Harry Bolton. Keywords: food, drinking, fai...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1859
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1 item

9920. Add MS 52988 C

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‘The magic axe, or, The fairy of the moss rose dell and the fiend of the whisper valley’, pantomime. Licence sent 16 December 1859 for performance at the Victoria on 26 December 1859. Front cover signed J. Towers. Attributed by Nicoll to E. Towers. Keywords: German legends, nymphs, fairies...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1859
Extent:
1 item