‘Jack the giant killer’, pantomime. Licence sent 29 December 1859 for performance at the Circus, Manchester. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that two lines of text including a reference to Benjamin Disraeli be omitted. Contains cuts in ink, pencilled stage directions and cues...
‘Valentine and Orson, or, Harlequin King Pippin, the Queen Butterfly and the Green Knight of Agramont’, pantomime. Licence sent 20 December 1859 for performance at the Grecian. Cover signed B. O Conquest. Contains words to songs. Keywords: science, astronomy, animals, popular song, forest s...
‘Harlequin earth, air, fire and water, or, Mistress Mary quite contrary and the black buccaneer, or, Mary, Mary, quite contrary how does your garden grow, or, Harlequin silver bells and cockle shells and primroses all of a row’, pantomime. Licence sent 22 December 1859 for performance at the S...
‘Garibaldi’s Englishman’, farce in one act. Licence sent 23 December 1859 for performance at the St. James’s. MS written in more than one hand. Keywords: family relationships, engagements, war, volunteers, Italian influence, mistaken identity, rustics, debt, salesmen. ff. 72.
‘Little Tom Tucker sung for his supper, or, Harlequin hot boiled beans and very good butter’, pantomime. Licence sent 22 December 1859 for performance at the Pavilion on 23 December 1859. Cover signed John Douglass, lessee and manager. Comic scenes bound within MS. Keywords: nursery-rhymes...
‘King Thrusbeard, or, Pet and passion’ (sic) ('King Thrushbeard, or, The little pet and the great passion'), burlesque by Francis Talfourd. Licence sent 23 December 1859 for performance at the Lyceum. Listed in Nicoll and Lacy’s under the longer alternative title. Published in Lacy’s, vol. ...
‘The household fairy’, domestic sketch in one act by Francis Talfourd. Licence sent 23 December 1859 for performance at the St. James’s. Stage directions written in red ink and underlined in black. Back page signed Francis Talfourd Esquire. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 44, no. 648. Keywords: s...
'The spectre ostler' , 'original comic scenes never acted ….. invented and written by Nelson Lee'. Not listed in either Nicoll or the LCO Day Book Add. 52703. Contains coloured illustration of set design, ‘The old Red Lion’, in ink and watercolour. MS signed Nelson Lee. Keywords: Harlequinade, g...