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‘The marriage day, or, The life chase’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 21 September 1852 for performance at the Surrey 21 September 1852. Title page signed Mssrs. Shepherd and Creswick. Also performed as ‘The life chase’ at the Surrey 15 Novembe...
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'The preux chevalier, or, The peer and the peasant' ('The days of Louis 15th'), comedy in three acts. Licence sent 12 April 1853 for performance at the Surrey 12 April 1853. Keywords: Pre-Revolutionary France, aristocracy, adultery, French influen...
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‘Harlequin and the summer queen, or, King Winter and the fairies of the silver willows’, pantomime. Licence sent 22 December 1856 for performance at the Surrey 22 December 1856. Letter signed by Stephen Smith, treasurer, giving title of pantomime,...
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‘Extremely peculiar’, interlude in one act. Licence sent 30 August 1856 for performance at the Surrey 6 July 1857. Keywords: French influence, flirtation, aristocracy.ff. 31.London; Secular Institutions. Theatres. Surrey Theatre: 'Extremely peculi...
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'Harlequin Romeo and Juliet', pantomime. Licence sent 17 December 1857 for performance at the Surrey. Cover signed Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. Songs included in MS. Includes comic scenes. Not listed in Nicoll. Keywords: the supernatural, fa...
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'Temptation', drama in three acts by Josh Redworth. Licence sent 16 May 1855 for performance at the Theatre Royal Birmingham 16 May 1855. Signed by M. H. Simpson. Listed by Nicoll under ‘unknown authors’. Keywords: discipline, pubs and inns, mur...
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‘Tafelhausen, or, The legend of a lawyer’, drama in two acts by J. B. Johnstone. Licence sent 18 March 1856 for performance at the Surrey 24 March 1856. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that the words ‘Lord’ and ‘Oh Lord’ be omitted...
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‘The divorced’ (‘The advocate’s daughter’), drama in two acts. Licence sent 21 September 1852 for performance at the Surrey 21 September 1852 . Title page signed by Mssrs. Shepherd and Creswick. Stage directions and speaking cues underlined in red...
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'King Muffin, or, Harlequin Heartcake and the fairy of the glow worm glade', pantomime. Licence sent 13 December 1853 for performance at Surrey 13 December 1853. Songs included in MS. Diagrams included. Keywords: fairies and other supernatural c...
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'Catherine Howard' ('Ambition, or, The throne and the tomb'), drama in four acts. Licence sent 18 September 1857 for performance at the Surrey. Cover signed Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that a nu...
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'The victims of fraud' ('Fraud and its victims'), drama in a prologue and four acts by J. S. Coyne. Licence sent 2 April 1857 for performance at the Surrey 2 March 1857. Intended performance date listed on cover is 2 March 1857. 'J. Stirling Coyn...
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'Bird in hand', drama in three acts by F. L. Phillips. Licence sent 2 January 1857 for performance at the Surrey 19 January 1857. List of dramas licensed in January 1857 bound in with this MS. Keywords: eighteenth-century settings, military, serv...
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‘The shadows of crime’, drama in three acts. Licence sent 25 January 1856 for performance at the Surrey 4 February 1856. Keywords: French influence, military, disguise, disabled characters, drinking and drunkenness, English characters, family rela...
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‘The mould of mould manor, or, A ghost story’ original drama in two acts by J. B. Johnstone. Licence sent 30 August 1856 for performance at the Surrey 30 August 1856. Keywords: family relationships, military, crime, murder, supernatural, servants....
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‘Life’s seasons, or, Hearts and homes’, drama in four acts, almost certainly by John Courtney (torn page obscures author’s name.) Licence sent 4 September 1852 for performance at the Surrey. Names of Mssrs. Shepherd and Creswick appear on title-pa...
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'Up in the world', farce in one act by J. Worthington. Licence sent 1 October 1857 for performance at the Surrey the same day. Last page signed Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitt...
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‘The devil’s in it’, opera in two acts , with libretto by Alfred Bunn. Licence sent 15 July 1852 for performance at the Surrey 21 July 1852. Letter from the stage manager requesting licence is bound with MS. Text written in two different hands; o...
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'The democrats of 1793' ('The generous heart') drama in three acts. Licence sent 22 December 1855 for performance at the Surrey. 'The generous heart' is written on title page but crossed out. Not listed in Nicoll. Keywords: rustics, French influ...
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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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‘Love’s device, or, Where there’s a will there’s a way’, interlude in one act. Licence sent 17 March 1852 for performance at the Surrey. Red underlining of stage directions and speaking cues throughout some of the text. Title page signed by Messr...
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'The family friend', play in three acts. Licence sent 9 September 1857 for performance at the Surrey. 'Licence copy' written on cover. Cover signed Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. Mr Smith, 1 Charles Street, Fitzroy Sq. Listed neither in LCO Day...
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‘How we live, or, London labour and the London poor’, drama in three acts by J. B. Johnstone. Licence sent 18 March 1856 for performance at the Surrey 24 March 1856. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 lists title as ‘How we live in the world of London’. Cov...
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'The husband of an hour', drama in two acts by Edmund Falconer. Licence sent 26 May 1857 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 30 May 1857. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 31, no. 462. Keywords: French influence, servants, aristocracy, widows,...
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‘The charmed harp’, operetta in one act by John Courtney (music by M. Lutz). Licence sent 24 August 1852 for performance at the Surrey 30 August 1852. Donne’s signature and one other appear on title page. Stage directions and speaking cues underl...
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'Soldiers at home and heroes abroad', drama in three acts by J. E. Carpenter. Licence sent 30 October 1855 for performance at the Surrey 5 November 1855. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that all oaths and 'Oh Lord' be omitted. Pub...
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'The Martini family, or, Old Joe and young Joe', drama in two acts. Licence sent 8 October 1853 for performance at the Surrey. Keywords: servants, food and dining, family relationships.ff. 67.London; Secular Institutions. Theatres. Surrey Theatre:...
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'The sacrifice, or, Love unto death', drama in two acts. Licence sent 7 October 1857 for performance at the Surrey the same day. 'Indian piece' written on cover of act three. Signed Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick on last page. LCO Day Book Add. 5...
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'The seven poor travellers', drama in three acts by J. B. Johnstone. Licence sent 25 January 1855 for performance at the Surrey 29 January 1855. Songs included in MS. Also see Add. 52952 J, 52952 L and 52953 G. Keywords: literature and literary ...
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'Toddles and Fogg', farce in one act. Licence sent 23 April 1855 for performance at the Surrey 3 April 1855. Diagram included. Keywords: flirtation, travel, illness, science and technology, trains and rail travel.ff. 23.London; Secular Institutio...
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'Blow in the dark,' farce in one act by W. Thompson Townsend. Licence sent 8 December 1855 for performance at the Surrey 3 December 1855. Published in Lacy's, vol. 106. Keywords: French influence, hotels, aristocracy, military, fashion, duelling,...
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The postman’s knock, musical farce in one act by L. M. Thornton. Printed (n.d.) Licence sent 22 March 1856 for performance at the Surrey 10 April 1856. Songs included in MS. Keywords: pubs and inns, land and farming, elopement.ff. 11.Lewis Manse...
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‘Sarah’s young man’, farce in one act by William E. Suter. Licence sent 19 April 1856 for performance at the Surrey 21 April 1856. Cover signed Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 31, no. 463. Keywords: servants, debt and it...
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'Our traviata', burlesque in one act by W. F. Vandervell. Licence sent 5 September 1857 for performance at the Surrey 14 September 1857. Cover signed Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. Songs included in MS. For other versions see Add. 52966 R, 52967...
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'The prince of pearls, or Harlequin and Jane Shore, queen of the grapes', pantomime. Licence sent 12 December 1855 for performance at the Surrey 24 December 1855. Songs included in MS. Keywords: fairies and other supernatural creatures, London, d...
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Comic scenes for a pantomime (the title 'Chamber of horrors' written on title page and crossed out), in four scenes. Licence sent 20 December 1852 for performance at the Surrey. Simultaneously licenced with, and almost certainly meant to be a part...
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'Avarice' ('Father Hardbargain'), drama in two acts by J. B. Johnstone. Licence sent 24 October 1857 for performance at the Surrey. Cover signed Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that the line, 'It will...
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‘The college friends’ (‘The avenger witness, or, Crime and retribution’), drama in two acts. Licence sent 30 August 1856 for performance at the Surrey 30 August 1856. Cover signed Mr. Thompson Townsend. Revisions and annotations to text throughou...
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'Florence Montauban, or, The robbers of Normandy', a melodrama in two acts by Charles Maiden. Licence sent 20 September 1855 for performance at the Surrey 20 September 1855. Keywords: French influence, police, crime, travel, aristocracy, dance, Pa...
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‘The old school and the new’, farce in one act. Licence sent 6 February 1852 for performance at the Bath and Bristol 6 February 1852. Signed by H. Butler. Noted to be the ‘property of the Bateman children’ on title page. The last two pages of the...
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'The sanctuary' ('The sanctuary, or, England in 1450'), musical drama in two acts by J. E. Carpenter. Licence sent 20 September 1855 for performance at the Surrey 8 October 1855. Songs included in MS. Keywords: London, death, poverty, nautical in...
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‘Cabinet secret’, farce in one act by T. H. Webb. Licence sent 16 October 1856 for performance at the Grecian Saloon 13 October 1856. Cover signed Ro. Conquest, actual and responsible manager. Some revisions to text. Songs included. Speaking cu...
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‘The half caste’, drama in four acts by T. W. Robertson. Licence sent 30 August 1856 for performance at the Surrey 8 September 1856. Cover signed Suter. Revisions throughout. Elaborate stage directions. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 97, no. 441, as...
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Wanted, an errand boy; or, Maid of all work, farce in one act (not translated from the French) by James Bruton. Printed. Licence sent 15 October 1857 for performance at the Surrey the same day. Cover signed Mr. N. Smith, acting manager. LCO Day ...
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