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1. Add MS 52981 A-T

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Title:
Lord Chamberlain's Plays, 1852 - 1866. March - April 1859 .
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Mar 1859-Apr 1859
Extent:
20 items

2. Add MS 52981 T

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Scope & Content:
Index. ff. 1.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1859
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 52981 A

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‘William that married Susan, or, A squall in the downs’, musical extravaganza in one act. Licence sent 17 March 1859 for performance at the Britannia. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Words of songs given. Keywords: sailors, nautical drama, ships as settings, seaside setting, Deal, fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Mar 1859
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 52981 N

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‘Everybody’s friend’ ('The widow hunt'), comedy in five acts by J. S. Coyne. Licence sent 31 March 1859 for performance at the Haymarket on 2 April 1859. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. MS contains extensive cuts in ink and pasted-in amendments. Pu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1859
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 52981 Q

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‘Household words, all the year round’, farce by Sydney J. G. French. Licence sent 11 April 1859 for performance at the Lyceum. Keywords: literary reference, eavesdropping, servants, marital relationships, debt, creditors. ff. 18. Sydney French, writer of plays: Plays by, submitted: 1859-18...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1859
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 52981 P

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‘The mechanic, or, The lights and shades of virtue and vice’, drama in two acts by G. Clair. Licence sent 9 April 1859 for performance at the Effingham. French settings, working men and women, Paris, class conflicts, poverty, cooking, courtship, taverns, courtship, aristocrats, drink and drun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1859
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 52981 I

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‘Vandyke Brown’, farce in one act by A. C. Troughton. Licence sent 23 March 1859 for performance at the Strand. Copied by G. Hastings. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that a section of text be omitted. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 39, no. 583. Keywords: photography, servants,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Mar 1859
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 52981 B

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Les faux bonshommes, comedy in four acts by Théodore Barrière and Ernest Capendu. Printed. French. Licence sent 24 March 1859 for performance at the St James’s. Not listed in Nicoll. Keywords: art and artists, business and finance, inheritance, family relationships, courtship, marital rel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
24 Mar 1859
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 52981 S

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‘Orphan of the mine’, drama in two acts by W. E. Suter. Licence sent 11 April 1859 for performance at the Queens. Signed W. E. Suter. Extensive stage directions underlined. Keywords: natural phenomena, exile, treason, royalty, Russia, Poland, duelling, inns, military, family relationships,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1859
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 52981 J

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‘St. Giles’s Overreach, or, A new way old debts to pay’, burlesque in one act by G. W. Simms. Licence sent 24 March 1859 to be performed 31 March 1859 at the Victoria. Cover signed and text copied by Isaac Cohen. Listed as ‘Sir Giles Overreach’ in both Nicoll and LCO Day Book Add. 52703. Wo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Mar 1859
Extent:
1 item