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1. Add MS 52982 A-Z

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

2. Add MS 52982 Z

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

3. Add MS 52982 D

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‘Oceola’, drama in three acts. Licence sent 21 April 1859 for performance at the Surrey. Based on the life of the Seminole chief, Oceola, and much influenced by the novel Oceola by Captain (Thomas) Mayne Reid, 1859. Keywords: native Americans, Florida, slaves, military, mixed-race character...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Apr 1859
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 52982 Q

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‘Ticket of leave’, drama in one act. Licence sent 9 May 1859 for performance at the Surrey. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records numerous stipulations to omit parts of the text. Keywords: music, Scottish setting, Scotland/England contrasts, barristers, engagements, convicts, marital relationship...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1859
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 52982 B

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‘Devil on two sticks’, burlesque. Licence sent 20 April 1859 to be performed 25 April 1859 at the Adelphi. MS written in more than one hand. Extensive cuts, amendments and paste-ins. Based on the novel Le diable boiteux, by Alain-René Le Sage, 1707. Keywords: Spanish settings, music, popul...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1859
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 52982 J

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‘The gold fiend of the Black Forest and the poor student of Heidelberg’ (‘The gold fiend and the shadowless man’ al. ‘The gold fiend of the Black Forest, or, The shadowless man and the poor student of Hildeburgh’), drama in two acts. Licence sent 23 April 1859 for performance at the Garrick. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1859
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 52982 Y

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‘The love test’, drama in two acts by J. B. Johnstone. Licence sent 28 May 1859 for performance at the Effingham. Signed Morris Abrahams LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. Keywords: poachers, family relationships, death, murder, inns, London, Bristol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 May 1859
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 52982 C

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‘Electra in a new electric light’, classical extravaganza in one act by F. Talfourd. Licence sent 19 April 1859 for performance at the Haymarket. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 39, no. 585. Lacy’s edition contains more detailed stage directions and titles of popular songs. Keywords: Greek mytho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1859
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 52982 U

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‘A frightful tragedy in Willow Walk’, farce in one act adapted from the French by Thompson Townsend. Licence sent 17 May 1859 for performance at the City of London Theatre. Copy for George W. Simms. French influence, drinking and drunkenness, military, lodgers and boarding houses, servants, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1859
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 52982 F

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Une aventure sous Louis XV, vaudeville in one act by Charles Cabot. Printed. French. Licence sent 23 April 1859 for performance at the St. James’s. Not listed in Nicoll. First performed at the Gaité, Paris, 8 May 1858. Contains words for songs. Keywords: eighteenth-century settings, rur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1859
Extent:
1 item