'The clockmaker of Bishopsgate', drama in two acts. Licence sent 18 August 1860 for performance at the Effingham Saloon. Name of Morris Abrahams, the theatre manager, noted on the cover. Keywords: false marriage, secret marriage, murder, abduction, attempted murder, working men and women, co...
'Duchess or nothing', comedietta in one act by 'Walter Gordon' (i.e., William Aylmer Gowing). Licence sent 30 June 1860 for performance at the Olympic. Adapted from the French play, 'The Marquise de Carabas'. Published in Lacy's, vol. 47, no. 696. Keywords: early modern setting, France, fa...
'Julie de Launay, or, The foundlings of Notre Dame!!!', drama in two acts. Licence sent 23 August 1860 for performance at the Britannia. Name of Samuel Lane, the theatre proprietor, noted on the title page. ff. 30.
L'honneur est satisfait, comedy in one act by Alexandre Dumas père. Printed (La librairie théatrale, 1858). French. Licence sent 7 July 1860 for performance at the St. James's. First performed at the Gymnase, Paris, 19 June 1858. Publisher's advertisement on back cover. Not listed in Nic...
'Handy Andy, or, The lost heir', drama in two acts. Licence sent 21 June 1860 for performance at the Standard. Described as 'a new Irish comic drama … dramatised from S. Lover's tale of that name by Mr Gardiner Coyne, expressly for his own use and performance thereof …', signed by Gardiner Co...
'The "Queen's" Rifles' (altered from 'The bloomer costume'), farce in one act. Licence sent 13 August 1860 for performance at the Queen's. Signed C. J. James. Contains words for songs. Keywords: servants, feminism, women and military, marital relationships, shopkeepers, music, cross-dressin...
'A fair exchange' (altered from 'Exchange is no robbery'), farce in one scene by Montagu Williams. Licence sent 21 August 1860 for performance at the Olympic. Stage directions in red ink, numbered cues in pencil, cuts in ink. Published in Lacy's, vol. 47, no. 703. Contains words for songs. ...
'Romance and reality, or, Truth and fiction', drama in two acts, possibly by John Brougham. Licence sent 9 July 1860 for performance at the Grecian. Signed B. Conquest, manager. Actors' names listed next to dramatis personæ. According to Nicoll, this is a revised version of a play first per...