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'A night with Burns’, farce in one act. Licence sent 8 March 1853 for performance at the City of London the same day. Majority of script written in blue ink with stage directions in red and corrections in black. Signed by Mr. W. Serle. LCO Day B...
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‘Uncle Tom’s cabin’, drama in three acts. Licence sent 3 January 1853 for performance at the City of London 3 January 1853. [italics]Signed[/italics] by Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that certain o...
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'The king of Persia, or, The triumph of the Jewish Queen', drama in three acts. Licence sent 14 September 1855 for performance at the City of London 31 August 1855. Written on several different typed of paper. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the ...
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'The Spanish girl, or, The spy of Naples', drama in three acts by G. D. Pitt. Licence sent 9 April 1857 performance at the City of London Theatre 13 April 1857. Keywords: Spanish influence, Naples, police, nautical interest, aristocracy, imprisonm...
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'The mountain monarch, or, The hero, the champion and the murderer', drama in three acts. Licence sent 27 September 1855 for performance at the City of London 27 September 1855. Signed by Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: mountain setting...
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'The sexton's bird, or, The orphan peeress of Greymoor Abbey', drama in two acts. Licence sent 31 March 1855 for performance at City of London 31 March 1855. Songs included in MS. Keywords: dance, peasants, land and farming, aristocracy, doctors ...
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‘First love and false hearts, or, Sunbeams and shadows’, drama in two acts by C. Hazelwood. Licence sent 14 August 1856 for performance at City of London 14 August 1856. Cover signed Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: family relationships,...
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'The parish boy's progress', in two acts by C. Hazlewood. Licence sent 7 August 1855 for performance at the City of London. No date of first performance given. Signed by the lessees, Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. For other versions see Add. 52...
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'Jack Sheppard', drama in three acts adapted by William Searle. Licence sent 15 August 1855 for performance at the City of London 16 August 1855. For another version see Add. 52954 DD. Several plays under this title were licensed throughout the c...
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‘Anne Boleyn, or, Harlequin King Harry and the miller of the river Dee’, comic pantomime by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 19 December 1856 for performance at the City of London 19 December 1856. Cover signed Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Revisions a...
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'The released convict, or, It’s a long lane that has no turning', drama in two acts. Licence sent 10 February 1857 for performance at the City of London the same day. Keywords: prisons and prisoners, crime, disguise.ff. 22.London; Secular Institut...
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'The wreck of the Golden Mary', drama in two acts. Licence sent 10 February 1857 for performance at the City of London the same day. For other versions, see Add. 52964 D and 52964 G. Keywords: nautical interest, murder, children, stagecraft, gold...
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'Spirit rappings and table movings, or, The mahogany polka', farce in one act. Licence sent 22 June 1853 for performance at the City of London 27 June 1853. Signed by William Serle. For analogues see Add. 52940 R and 52941 G. Keywords: spiritual...
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'The three brothers of Normandy, or, The compact of life and death', drama in three acts. Licence sent 7 April 1857 for performance at the Britannia Saloon the same day. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Songs included in MS. Keywords: Auste...
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'Sequin, or, The scalp hunter', drama in three acts. Licence sent 22 October 1853 for performance at the City of London 24 October 1853. Signed by Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that all oaths and ...
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L'impresario, opera bouffe by Léon Battu and Ludovic Halévy (for the music by Mozart). Printed (1856). French. Licence sent 11 May 1857 for performance at the St. James’s. Original first performance at Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens 20 Mai 1856. ...
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‘Minnigrey’, drama in four acts. Licence sent 15 April 1852 for performance at the City of London Theatre 15 April 1852. Title page lists Mssrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that a number of phrases be o...
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‘The man with the red beard’ al. ‘Friends and their shadows’, drama in three acts by John H. Wilkins. Licence sent 13 July1852 for performance at the City of London Theatre 19 July 1852. Obscured signature on title page. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 r...
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‘Selfishness, or, The echo devil and the wizard’s curse’, a supernatural drama in two acts. Licence sent 19 January 1856 for performance at City of London 9 February 1856. Signed Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: the supernatural, fairies...
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‘Life’s trials by sea and land, or, The child of the waves’, drama in two acts by C. Hazlewood. Licence sent 22 July 1856 for performance at City of London 22 July 1856. Signed Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Songs included in MS. Keywords: Amer...
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‘The working man, or, The pearl and the diamond’, drama in three acts. Licence sent 29 March 1852 for performance at the City of London 29 March 1852. Title page lists Mssrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: working women, Paris, French influenc...
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‘The fall of the leaf’, drama in three acts. Authorship, management or both are attributable to Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Licence sent 31 January 1852 for performance at the City of London 31 January 1852. The date 1851 appears at the botto...
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'The struggles of the poor, or, Love, poverty and wealth', domestic drama in two acts by C. H. Hazlewood. Licence sent 16 June 1857 for performance at the City of London Theatre. Cover signed Messrs Johnson and Nelson Lee. Does not appear to be l...
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‘The Hebrew’ (‘The Hebrew’s sacrifice’), drama in three acts. Licence sent 2 February 1852 for performance at the City of London Theatre 9 February 1852. Title page signed by Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. A note in the LCO Day Book Add. 53703 e...
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'The fox and the grapes or, Harlequin and old Esop's fables', pantomime. Licence sent 17 December 1855 for performance at the City of London 26 December 1855. Signed by Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: animals, fairies and other supernat...
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‘The frost of youth, or, Hearts matched against diamonds and the struggles of life’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 30 September 1856 for performance at City of London 6 October 1856. Three different types of paper and two different hands used fo...
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‘The emigrant’s progress’ al. ‘The emigrant’s career’: drama in two acts. Licence sent 29 September 1852 for performance at City of London Theatre 2 October 1852. Title page signed Mssrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Title appears as ‘The emigrant’s ...
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‘The wild tribes of London’, drama in two acts by C. Hazlewood. Licence sent 31 May 1856 for performance at City of London 31 May 1856. Cover signed Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: gambling, debt and its consequences, crime.ff. 20.Colin...
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‘The betting boy’s career, from his home to the hulks’, ‘moral drama’ in two acts. Licence sent 3 August 1852 for performance at the City of London Theatre 9 August 1852. ‘Taken from the plates’ appears on title page, perhaps written by an E. F. S...
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'The will and the way’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 11 May 1853 for performance at the City of London. Signed by Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. For other versions see Add. 52939 O, 52939 Q, 52939 AA, 52939 BB, 52939 DD, and 52942 H. Keyword...
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'The life of a beggar', drama in three acts by W. Travers. Licence sent 13 August 1857 for performance at City of London 14 August 1857. Cover signed Messrs Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: festival and celebration, servants, death, poverty, poi...
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'Life in the trenches', drama in two acts. Licence sent 1 September 1855 for performance at the City of London 31 August 1855. Signed by Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: English characters, French characters, Russian characters, British ...
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'The falling star, or, Poor Andrew of the Tyrol', “drama of interest” in two acts by C. H. Hazlewood. Licence sent 13 April 1855 for performance at the City of London 13 April 1855. Signed by Messrs Johnson and Nelson Lee. Listed in Nicoll under ...
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