'Harlequin Romeo and Juliet', pantomime. Licence sent 17 December 1857 for performance at the Surrey. Cover signed Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. Songs included in MS. Includes comic scenes. Not listed in Nicoll. Keywords: the supernatural, fairies and other supernatural creatures, litera...
‘The loves of Cupid and Psyche’, burletta spectacle in one act, opening to a pantomime. Licence sent 22 December 1857 for performance at the Adelphi the same day. Signed ‘With Mr Benjamin Webster’s compliments’. Songs included in MS. Some revisions to the text included. Songs added to text...
St George and the dragon, Christmas pantomime. Printed. Licence sent 21 December 1857 for performance at the Theatre Royal Plymouth 26 December 1857. Songs included. Keywords: the supernatural, fairies and other supernatural creatures, British Empire, Indian Mutiny, nautical interest, dance...
‘Harlequin Aboulifar, or, The fairy of the coral islands’, pantomime. Licence sent 21 December 1857 for performance at the Soho. Songs and comic scenes included in MS. Not listed in Nicoll. Keywords: harlequinade, Ratcatcher’s Daughter, nautical interest, Indian characters, fairies and othe...
'The doge of Duralto, or, The enchanted eyes', Christmas extravaganza by R. B. Brough. Licence sent 21 December 1857 for performance at the Olympic 26 December 1857. Many revisions and stage cues added in different hands, sometimes in pencil. Songs included in MS. Published in Lacy’s, vol. ...
'Sing a song of sixpence, or, The star of the west and the 24 blackbirds bake'd in a pie', pantomime. Licence sent 21 December 1857 for performance at the Britannia Saloon the same day. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Comic scenes included. Keywords: India, garrotting, crime, dance, h...
‘King Tea Pot the Great, or, Harlequin and the spirit queen, the fairy and the woodcutter’, pantomime by W .E. Suter. Licence sent 21 December 1857 for performance at the Queen’s 21 December 1857. Comic scenes included. Cover signed C. J. James. Last page of pantomime script is signed W. E....
'Harlequin Prince Love the Day, or, Queen Busy Bee, Little Red Riding Hood, and the fiend wolf', pantomime by H. Young. Licence sent 19 December 1857 for performance at the Victoria 26 December 1857. Request for licence signed by J. Johnson Towers. Copied by Isaac Cohen. Songs included in ...