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Add MS 52931 M
- Record Id:
- 040-002003791
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-002003778
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000672.0x000237
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 52931 M
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‘Adrienne Lecouvreur’, tragic drama in four acts. Licence sent 10 April 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal Manchester 10 April 1852. ‘Helen Faucit Martin’ is listed on title page, but Nicoll lists author as her husband, Sir Theodore Martin. Revisions to text throughout. This script may be the first English version of the text actually licensed as ‘Adrienne Lecouvreur’: a version by John Oxenford with the title altered on the title-page itself to ‘The reigning favourite’ was licensed in 1849. See Add. 43021 (6). It is not clear what relationship the text bears to the French original by Scribe and Legouvé on which Cilea’s 1849 opera Adriana Lecouvreur was based. For a licensed version of this libretto, see Add. 43025 (11). The LC Plays also include versions of this story by unidentified authors licensed in 1858, 1863, and 1882 (Add. 52975 F, 53023 S, and 53277 E) as well as a version by Henry Herman licensed in 1880 (Add. 53242 B). Keywords: French influence, theatre, Paris, working women, letters, military, imprisonment, aristocracy, crime, female villains, murder.
ff. 87.
Henry Sutherland Edwards, writer: Robert Barnabas Brough, writer: 'Mephistopheles, or, An ambassador from below', an extravaganza in one act by Robert Barnabas Brough and Henry Sutherland Edwards: circa 1852.
Manchester; Lancashire Theatre Royal: 'Adrienne Lecouvreur', a tragic drama in four acts , script licensed for Theatre Royal, Manchester: circa 1852.
Sir Theodore Martin, KCB, Parliamentary agent and translator: Play by, submitted: 1852.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002003716
036-002003778
040-002003791 - Is part of:
- Add MS 52929-53708 : THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S PLAYS AND DAY-BOOKS; 1851-1899, 1824-1903.
Add MS 52931 A-BB : Lord Chamberlain’s Plays, 1852 – 1866. March - April 1852.
Add MS 52931 M : ‘Adrienne Lecouvreur’, tragic drama in four acts. Licence sent 10 April 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal Manchester… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002003716[0003]/036-002003778[0013]/040-002003791
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 52929-53708
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1852
- End Date:
- 1852
- Date Range:
- 10 Apr 1852
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Names:
- Brough, Robert Barnabas, writer
Edwards, Henry Sutherland, author, journalist and dramatist, 1828-1906
Martin, Theodore, KCB Parliamentary agent and translator
Theatre Royal, Manchester