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Add MS 52954 B
- Record Id:
- 040-002004450
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-002004448
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000726.0x0000cb
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- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 52954 B
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'Food for gossip', comedy in three acts translated and adapted from the Italian ‘Oste e non oste’, ‘expressly for the present occasion’ by Alfred Elwes. Licence sent 23 April 1855 for performance at the Soho Theatre 23 April 1855. Playbill bound in with the script which lists ‘Miss Kelly's Theatre’ as venue and ‘Vanbrugh Club’ as subscriber. Revisions throughout text. Nicoll lists the play under ‘unknown authors’. Keywords: Italian influence, aristocracy, pubs and inns, letters, crime.
ff. 90.
Alfred Elwes, writer of plays: London; Secular Institutions. Theatres. Soho Theatre: 'Food for gossip', comedy in three acts translated and adapted by Alfred Elwes, script licensed for the Soho: 1855.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002003716
036-002004448
040-002004450 - Is part of:
- Add MS 52929-53708 : THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S PLAYS AND DAY-BOOKS; 1851-1899, 1824-1903.
Add MS 52954 A-EE : Lord Chamberlain's Plays, 1852 - 1866. April - July 1855 .
Add MS 52954 B : 'Food for gossip', comedy in three acts translated and adapted from the Italian ‘Oste e non oste’, ‘expressly for the… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002003716[0026]/036-002004448[0002]/040-002004450
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 52929-53708
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1855
- End Date:
- 1855
- Date Range:
- 23 Apr 1855
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Elwes, Alfred, author, academic, philologist and translator, 1819-1888
Soho Theatre, London