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Add MS 52997 N
- Record Id:
- 040-002005546
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-002005532
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000770.0x000158
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 52997 N
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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'Col. Jack', drama in two acts by E. Towers. Licence sent 15 November 1860 for performance at the Victoria on 19 November. Note of application for licence signed I. Cohen for J. Johnson Towers, the theatre manager. The character of Colonel Jack is possibly derived from Daniel Defoe's The history and remarkable life of Colonel Jack, London, 1723. Keywords: highwaymen, inns, eighteenth-century settings, robbery, abduction, doctors, adaptations of novels, aristocracy, disguise, babies, kidnapping, inheritance, trials, judges, prison, execution, pictures.
ff. 40.
Edward Towers, writer of plays: Plays by, submitted: 1859-1867.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002003716
036-002005532
040-002005546 - Is part of:
- Add MS 52929-53708 : THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S PLAYS AND DAY-BOOKS; 1851-1899, 1824-1903.
Add MS 52997 A-U : Lord Chamberlain's Plays, 1852 - 1866. October - November 1860 .
Add MS 52997 N : 'Col. Jack', drama in two acts by E. Towers. Licence sent 15 November 1860 for performance at the Victoria on 19 November.… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002003716[0069]/036-002005532[0014]/040-002005546
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 52929-53708
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1860
- End Date:
- 1860
- Date Range:
- 15 Nov 1860
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Towers, Edward, writer of plays