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Mid-Nineteenth-Century Drama
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Phillips, E. W. Phillips: artist and playwright. 1891.
Knight, J. Watts Phillips. DNB 45 1896. [hh]
George Dibdin Pitt 1799–1855
The last man: or the miser of Eltham Green. D. (Sur 22 July 1833).
Duncombe 24.
The monster of the Eddystone: or the lighthouse keepers. MD. (SW
7 Apr 1834). Cumberland Minor 10; Lacy 69.
The Jersey girl: or the red robbers. MD (Sur 9 Feb 1835). Lacy 26;
Dicks 512.
The twins, Paul and Philip. Ba. (Queen’s 21 Jan 1836). Dicks 419.
Simon Lee: or the murder of the Five Fields Copse. D. (CL 1 Apr 1839).
Lacy 78.
Susan Hopley: or the vicissitudes of a servant girl. (Vic 31 May 1841).
Lacy 69; Cumberland Minor 145.
The beggar’s petition: or a father’s love and a mother’s care. D. (CL 18
Oct 1841). Lacy 97; Dicks 514.
Marianne, the child of charity: or the head of a lawyer. (Vic 30 Dec
1844). French 119; Dicks 825.
Charles Reade 1814–84
See col 1385.
William Leman Rede 1802–47
Licensing copies of most of the plays are located in BL.
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All the plays listed below are also issued in one or more Readex micro edns.
The wedded wanderer: or the soldier’s fate. A novel. 1827.
The rake’s progress. MD. (City ? Feb 1832). Duncombe 12; Boston Th
10; Lacy 32; Dicks 240; Boston Th 1856.
His first champagne. F. (Str 7 Oct 1833). [1839?]; Webster 6; Lacy 73;
Dicks 212.
Faith and falsehood: or the fate of the bushranger. D. (Queen’s 22
Sep 1834). Duncombe 33; New BT 263; Dicks 548.
An affair of honour. F. (Olym 12 Mar 1835). 1835; Cumberland 44;
Lacy 78; Dicks 517.
The skeleton witness: or murder at the mound. D. (Sur 27 Apr 1835
with sub-title The king’s evidence). 1835; Cumberland 47; French
NY 197.
Cupid in London: or some passages in the life of love. Ext. (Queen’s
18 June 1835). Duncombe 17.
The old and young stager. Ba (Olym 7 Dec 1835). Duncombe 20;
Dicks 728; Lorenzen micro.
Come to town: or next door neighbours. Ba. (Str 25 Apr 1836).
Duncombe 21.
The Gaberlunzie man. MD. (EOH 26 Sep 1836). Duncombe 23.
The flight to America: or ten hours in New York. D. (Adel 7 Nov
1836). Duncombe 24; Philadelphia and New York [1840?].
Douglas travestie. Bsq. (Adel 13 Feb 1837). 1837; Duncombe 25; Lacy
46; Lorenzen micro.
The peregrinations of Pickwick: or Boz-i-a-na. F. (Adel 3 Apr 1837).
1837; Duncombe 33.
The two greens. Ba. (Olym 20 Feb 1840). Pattie 1.
The devil and Dr Faustus. Ba. (Str 31 May 1841). Cumberland 45.
Sixteen string Jack: or Ravin the reefer. D. (Olym 15 Nov 1841).
Cumberland Minor no 152; Dicks 392. Rev of Cob 18 Feb 1832
version.
Jack in the water: or the ladder of life. D. (Olym 25 Apr 1842).
Cumberland Minor 16; Dicks 574.
The royal rake [George IV], and the adventures of Alfred Chesterton.
[A satirical romance.] 1842 (priv ptd). Serialised in The Sunday
Times 1846.
Life’s a lottery: or Jolly Dick the lamplighter. D. (Olym 14 Nov 1842).
Cumberland 47; Dicks 601.
Our village: or lost and found. D. (Olym 17 Apr 1843). Lacy 88 (with
sub-title The lost ship); Dicks 711.
The queen’s bench. F. (Str 13 Nov 1848). Cumberland 44.
La somnambula: or the somnambulist. CO. (CG 1848). [1848].
Pickwick. (No performance details). Dicks 1065. From Dickens.
Contributions to periodicals
Early days of Edmund Kean. NMM Apr 1834.
Recollections of Kean, 1814 to his death. NMM May 1834.
Records of a stage veteran. (13 pts). NMM Aug 1834–Oct 1837.
Peeping Tom and Lady Godiva. NMM Jan 1838.
John Reeve. NMM Mar 1838.
Editions
Preface to Hannah Maria Jones (afterwards Lowndes), The
strangers of the glen: or the travellers benighted. A tale of
mystery. 1827.
[Ed W. L. Rede.] The road to the stage: contains clear and ample
instructions for obtaining theatrical engagements . . . To which is
added a list of the London theatres . . . an account of the Dramatic
Authors’ Society . . . and a copy of the Dramatic Copyright Act. By
the late Leman Thomas Rede. 1836 (new edn). First pbd under his
brother’s name in 1827.
Rede started Judy in 1842 as a rival to Punch, but only 2 issues appeared. For
other dramatic works, see Nicoll 4, pp. 389–91, 607. See also Conolly, English
drama, pp. 258–9; Readex Index, p. 228.
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Era 11 Apr 1847. Obituary.
Recollections of Rede. NMM May 1847.
GM June 1847. Obituary. [jrs]
Thomas William Robertson 1829–1871
Collections
Principal dramatic works, with a memoir by his son [T. W. S.
Robertson]. 2 vols 1889.
Society and Caste. Ed T. Edgar Pemberton, Boston and London 1905.
T. W. Robertson: six plays, with an introduction by M. R. Booth.
1980.
Plays by Tom Robertson. Ed with an introd by W. Tydeman. British
and American Playwrights Series 1750–1920. Cambridge 1982.
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The chevalier de St George. D. (P’cess 20 May 1845). [1870?]; Lacy 25.
From the Fr of M. Mélesville and R. de Beauvoir.
Noémie. Also Ernestine. Also Clarisse; or, The foster sister. Also The
foster sisters. D. (P’cess 14 Apr 1846). Lacy 23. From the Fr of A.
D’Ennery and Clément.
The ladies’ battle. C. (H 18 Nov 1851). Boston [1856?]; Lacy suppl 1.
From the Fr of A. E. Scribe and Legouvé.
Faust and Marguerite. D. (P’cess Apr 1854). Lacy 15. From the Fr of
M. Carré. Also attrib to Boucicault.
My wife’s diary. Also A wife’s journal. F. (Olym 18 Dec 1854). Lacy 18.
Adapted from Les memoires de deux jeunes mariées by A.
D’Ennery and Clairville.
The star of the north. D. (SW 5 Mar 1855, as The northern star). Lacy
93. From the Fr?
The clockmaker’s hat. Also Betty Martin. C. (Adelphi 7 Mar 1855).
Lacy 266. Also attrib to H. G. Harris.
Peace at any price. F. (Str 13 Feb 1856). Lacy 95; De Witt 156.
The half caste; or, The poisoned pearl. D. (Sur 8 Sep 1856). Lacy 97.
Two gay deceivers; or, Black, white and grey. F. (Str 1858). Lacy 23:
Dramatic Publishing Co nd; Sergel 56. With T.H. Lacy. From
Deux profonds scélérats by E. M. Labiche.
The Cantab. Also The young collegian. F. (Str 14 Feb 1861). Lacy 50.