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Mid-Nineteenth-Century Drama
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The wife’s secret. D. (Park Theatre, New York 12 Oct 1846; H 17 Jan
1848). Lacy 82; Dicks 1005.
Look before you leap: or wooings and weddings. C. (H 29 Oct 1846).
Webster 13; Dicks 998.
See also Nicoll 4, pp. 347, 596; 5, p. 463.
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Dunkel, W. D. The career of Lovell. TN 5 1951.
E. G. E. L. Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 1803–73
See col 1144.
W. R. S. Markwell
Louis XI: an historical drama. (DL 14 Feb 1835). Lacy 9. From
Delavigne.
The prophet’s curse. D. (Unacted?) 1862.
See also Nicoll 5, p. 477.
John Westland Marston 1819–90
Some letters and licensing copies of the plays are located in BL.
Collections
Dramatic and poetical works. 2 vols 1876. Includes all plays below,
except The heart and the world (fragments only) and Trevanion.
Some of the texts are much rev.
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All the plays listed below are also issued in one or more Readex micro edns.
Poetry as an universal nature: a lecture; to which is added The poet:
an ode. 1838.
Poetic culture: an appeal to those interested in human destiny. 1839.
The patrician’s daughter. T. (DL 10 Dec 1842). 1841, 1842 (2nd edn rev
for performance), 1842 (3rd edn), 1843 (4th edn), 1843 (5th edn);
Boston Th 5 (dated 1856); Lacy 43; Bailey.
Gerald: a dramatic poem, and other poems. 1842.
Borough politics. C. (H 27 June 1846). Webster 12.
The heart and the world. D. (H 4 Oct 1847). 1847.
Strathmore. T. (H 20 June 1849). 1849 (2 edns); Lacy 56 (with sub-title
Love and duty); Lorenzen micro. From Scott, Old Mortality.
Trevanion: or the false position. D. (Sur 22 Oct 1849). [1849]. With W.
B. Bernard.
Philip of France and Marie de Méranie. T. (Olym 4 Nov 1850). 1850 (2
edns). From G. P. R. James, Philip Augustus.
Anne Blake. D. (P’cess 28 Oct 1852). 1852; Boston Th 8; Lacy 49.
The death-ride: a tale of the light brigade. 1855.
A life’s ransom. D. (Lyc 16 Feb 1857). 1857 (with preface on the principles
of poetic drama); Lacy 54; Boston Th 14.
A hard struggle. D. (Lyc 1 Feb 1858). Lacy 48; Boston Th 21.
A lady in her own right: a novel. 1860.
The wife’s portrait: a household picture under two lights. D. (H 10
Mar 1862). Lacy 54.
The family credit and other tales. 1862.
Pure gold. D. (SW 9 Nov 1863). Lacy 61.
Donna Diana. C. (P’cess 2 Jan 1864).
The favourite of fortune. C. (H 2 Apr 1866).
Life for life. D. (Lyc 6 Mar 1869). 1869.
Address . . . on the inauguration of the Shakespeare memorial
theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, Apr 23rd, 1879. Delivered by
Miss Kate Field. [1879.]
John Baldwin Buckstone. In DNB 7, 1886.
Oliver Madox Brown. In DNB 7, 1886.
Our recent actors: being recollections, critical, and in many cases,
personal, of late distinguished performers of both sexes, with
some incidental notices of living actors. 2 vols 1888.
Contributions to periodicals
Realism in dramatic art. New Quart Mag Apr 1876.
Marston also edited the Nat Mag, with J. Saunders, 1857–64. For unpbd
dramatic works, see Nicoll 4, p. 353; 5, pp. 478–9. See also Conolly, English
drama, pp. 216–18; Stratman, pp. 402–3; Readex Index, pp. 174–5.
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Horne, R. H. In his A new spirit of the age vol 2, 1844.
The late Westland Marston: recollections by a friend. Pall Mall
Gazette 10 Jan 1890.
Dr Westland Marston. Athenaeum 11 May 1890.
Clarke, H. E. In The poets and poetry of the century, ed A. H. Miles,
vol 4 [1891]. [jrs]
Charles James Mathews 1803–78
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My wife’s mother. C. (H 3 July 1833). Lacy 23; Dicks 659.
Truth: or a glass too much. Ba. (Adel 10 Mar 1834). Webster 3.
The hump-backed lover. F. (Olym 7 Dec 1835). Cumberland Minor
12; Dicks 660.
Why did you die? Ba. (Olym 20 Nov 1837). Webster 2; Dicks 662.
The black domino. B. (Olym 18 Jan 1838). Webster 3. From Scribe, Le
domino noir.
Patter versus clatter. F. (Olym 21 May 1838). Lacy 118; Dicks 660.
Lettre aux auteurs dramatiques de la France. 1852; tr Mathews 1852.
Married for money. F. (DL 10 Oct 1815). French 117.
My awful dad. C. (Ga 13 Sep 1875). French 117.
The life of Mathews [chiefly autobiographical]. Ed C. Dickens 2 vols
1879.
For other dramatic works, see Nicoll 4, pp. 353–4, 597–8; 5, pp. 480, 806.
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Mathews, A. Memoirs of Charles Mathews, comedian. 4 vols 1838–9;
abridged E. Yates 1860. On early years.
Biographical sketch. Webster 3 [1838].
John Maddison Morton 1811–91
Collections
Comediettas and farces. New York, 1886.
Plays for home performance. 1889.
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All the plays listed below are issued in a Readex micro edn.
My first fit of the gout. F. (Queen’s 9 Mar 1835). Lacy 11.
My husband’s ghost. F. (H 26 Apr 1836). Boston [1857?];
Cumberland 35; Lacy 93; French’s minor drama 230; Spencer’s
Boston Th 124.
The sentinel. Ba. (Olym 23 Feb 1837). Webster 4; [1852].
The spitfire. F. (EOH 13 Sep 1837). Webster 17; Lacy 62 (as Alabama);
Turner 42, Philadelphia.
The barbers of Bassora. OF. (CG 11 Nov 1837). Webster 2; [1837?].
The original. Int. (CG 13 Nov 1837). [1837]; Webster 20.
Chaos is come again; or, The race ball. F. (CG 19 Nov 1838). Webster
65; [1838].
Sayings and doings; or, The rule of contrary. F. (CG 18 Apr 1839).
Webster 77; Acting Drama 30, New York.
Brother Ben. F. (CG 9 Dec 1840). Lacy 34; Spencer’s Boston Th 40.
The wrong man. F. (CG 6 Nov 1841). Dicks 433.
The attic story. F. (DL 19 May 1842). Cumberland 42; Mod Eng Com
Th 3.
Cousin Lambkin. F. (CG 8 Oct 1842). Duncombe 45.
Guy, Earl of Warwick or, Harlequin and the dun cow. P. [1842?].
The highwayman. F. [1843.] CG?
A thumping legacy. F. (DL 11 Feb 1843). [1843]; Lacy 15; French’s minor
drama 102.