Chapter XII (9)

_The Domestic Hearthstone_; or, the Virgin Maiden’s Vengeance, a
Terrible Tragedy in One Act, by John Smith. (A Richardsonian
Melo-drama.)

_Don Carlos; or, the Infante in Arms_, by Conway Edwardes, T. R.
South Shields, Aug. 6, 1869. Vaudeville, April 16, 1870. Honey,
Thorne, Miss Nelly Power.

_Don Giovanni_; or, a Spectre on Horseback, by Thomas Dibdin. Surrey
Theatre, 1817.

_Don Giovanni_, by J. C. Brennan, T. R. Greenwich, March 11, 1872.

_Don Giovanni in Venice_, Operatic extravaganza by R. Reece. Gaiety,
February 17, 1873.

_Don Giovanni M.P._ Princess’s Theatre, Edinburgh, April 17, 1874.

_Don Giovanni, Junr_; or, the Shakey Page, more Funkey than Flunkey.
Greenwich, May 17, 1875.

_Don Juan_, Burlesque, T. R. Bradford, Nov., 22, 1870.

_Don Juan_; by Henry J. Byron. Alhambra, Dec., 22, 1873.

_Don Juan, Junior_, by the Brothers Prendergast. Royalty, November
2, 1880, E. Righton, Miss Kate Lawler.

_Don Quixote_, burl., by J. M. Killick. Cabinet, Oct. 28, 1869.

_Done to-a-cinderella_; or, The Drudge, the Prince, and the Plated
Glass Slipper, by Fawcett Lomax. Theatre Royal, Exeter, September
12, 1881.

_Dora and Diplunacy_; or, a Woman of Uncommon Scents, by F. C.
Burnand. Strand, February 14, 1878.

_Douglas Travestie_, by William Leman Rede. Adelphi, Feb. 13, 1837.
O. Smith, J. Reeve, Mrs. Stirling.

_The Dragon of Hougue Bie_; or, The little Prince’s Tour, by J. F.
Draper. Royal Hall, Jersey, Dec. 8, 1871.

_Dulcamara_; or, the Little Duck and the Great Quack, by W. S.
Gilbert.

_East Lynne_, burl., Birmingham Theatre, Sept. 16, 1869.

_East Lynne_; or Isabel that was a Belle. Theatre Royal, Coventry,
November 10, 1884.

_Edwin and Angelina_, by Miss Walford. Gallery of Illustration, May
6, 1871.

_Effie and Jeannie Deans Burlesque_, by C. H. Hazlewood.

_Elbow Shakers_, by F. Fox Cooper. Adelphi.

_Elizabeth_; or, the Don, the Duck, the Drake, and the Invisible
Armada, by F. C. Burnand. Vaudeville, November 17, 1870.

_Enchanted Horse_, by Albert Smith and C. L. Kenney. Lyceum,
December 26, 1845.

_The Enchanted Isle_; or, “Raising the Wind” on the most approved
Principles. A parody on Shakespeare’s “Tempest,” by the Brothers
Brough. Adelphi, Nov. 20, 1848. O. Smith, Paul Bedford, Miss
Woolgar & Madame Celeste.

_Endymion_; or, the Naughty Boy who cried for the Moon, by William
Brough.

_Ernani_; or, the Horn of a Dilemma, by William Brough. Alexandra
T., May 20, 1865.

_Erratic Evangeline._ Birmingham T., March 10, 1884.

_Esmeralda_, an Operaticoterpsichorean burlesque in Two Acts,
without any Foundation whatever, by two Gentlemen who won’t be
answerable for anything. London, published by G. Odell, 1844.

_Esmeralda_, burl., by Albert Smith. Adelphi, June 3, 1850. O.
Smith, Wright, Paul Bedford, Miss Woolgar, Madame Celeste.

_Esmeralda_; or, the “Sensation” Goat, by Henry J. Byron. Strand,
Sept. 28, 1861. J. Rogers, J. Clarke, Misses Marie Wilton, E.
Bufton. Revived at the Strand, June, 1871.

_Eurydice_ (as it was damned at the T. R., in Drury Lane), by Henry
Fielding: see his works.

_Eurydice_; or, Little Orpheus and His Lute, by H. J. Byron. Strand,
April 24, 1871.

_Evangeline_, American burlesque. Court Theatre, Liverpool, June 11,
1883.

_Fair Helen_, by V. Amcotts. Oxford. Shrimpton. 1868.

_Fair Star_, extravaganza, by Albert Smith and J. Oxenford.
Princess’s, April 8, 1844.

_The Fairy Ring._ Theatre Royal, Bristol, March 29, 1869.

_Fancy Land; or, the Ideal King_, burlesque, by C. F. Fuller, H.M.S.
“Rainbow,” April 9, 1884.

_Farrago_, burlesque, Ashton Theatre, May 14, 1883.

_The Fair Princess_, burlesque, by Fred Bernard. Gaiety Theatre,
Walsall, December 20, 1886.

_Fair Rosamond’s Bower_ or, the Monarch, the Maiden, the Maze, and
the Mixture, by Frederick Langbridge.

_Fair Rosamond_, burlesque-extravaganza, T. P. Taylor. Sadler’s
Wells, 1838.

_Fair Rosamond_; or, the Maze, the Maid, and the Monarch, by F. C.
Burnand. Olympic, April 21, 1862. F. Robson.

_Faust in a Fog_, by R. Reece.

_Faust and Marguerite_, by F. C. Burnand. St. James’s, July 9, 1864.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Mathews, J. Clarke.

_Faust; or, Marguerite’s Mangle_, by C. H. Hazlewood. Britannia,
March 25, 1867.

_Faust in forty minutes_, burlesque by Fred. Locke. Gaiety T.
Glasgow. August 17, 1885.

_Faust and Loose; or Brocken Vows._ Travestie on Lyceum “Faust,” by
F. C. Burnand. Toole’s Theatre, Feb. 4, 1886. J. L. Toole, Miss
Marie Linden.

_Faust and Co._, by George Gordon, T. R. Greenock, February 27,
1886.

_Faust up to Date_, burlesque, by G. R. Sims and Henry Pettitt,
Gaiety, October 30, 1888. E. J. Lonnen, Miss F. Robina, Miss F.
St. John.

_Faust_; or the Old Man and the Devil. Woolwich T.

_Fayre Rosamond_; or, Ye Dagger, and Ye Poisoned Bowl by T. Cother.
T. R., Gloucester, April 19, 1869.

_The Field of the Cloth of Gold_, burl-extrav. Strand, April 11,
1868. Harry Cox, Marius, H. J. Turner, Misses Sallie Turner and
Lottie Venne.

_Fine Nance_; or, Alas (s) for the city; a burlesque sketch as
performed by a Limited Company. London, Hatton and Son 1867. A
skit on the “Companies’ Act 1862.”

_The Flying Dutchman_; or, the Demon Seaman and the Lass that loved
a Sailor, by W. Brough. Royalty, Dec. 2, 1869.

_Firmilian_; or the Student of Badajoz. A Spasmodic Tragedy, by T.
Percy Jones, W. Blackwood & Sons, 1854. This burlesque was
written by Professor W. E. Aytoun.

_F. M. Julius Cnæsar_; or, the Irregular Rum ’un, by F. C. Burnand.
Royalty, September 7, 1870.

_The Forty Thieves_, burlesque, by R. Reece, Gaiety, Dec. 24, 1880.
Edward Terry, T. Squire, Royce, Misses E. Farren, and Kate Vaughan.

_The Four Kings_; or, Paddy in the Moon, by C. H. Hazlewood.
Britannia, April 14, 1873.

_Fowl Play_; or, a Story of Chikken Hazard, by F. C. Burnand.
Queen’s, June 20, 1868.

_Fra Diavolo_; or, the Beauty and the Brigands, by Henry James
Byron. Strand, April 5, 1858, and revived Sept. 10, 1860. H. J.
Turner, J. Rogers, Miss M. Simpson.

_Fra Diavolo the Second_, extravaganza, by J. T. Denny.
Philharmonic, August 28, 1882.

_The Frightful Hair_; or, who Shot the Dog. An original Travestie on
Lord Lytton’s “Rightful Heir.” By F. C. Burnand. Haymarket,
December 26, 1868. Mr. Kendal, Mr. Compton, Misses Ione Burke,
and F. Wright. Published by Phillips, Regent Circus, London.

_Frankenstein_, burlesque, by “Richard Henry.” Gaiety, December 24,
1887.

_Furnivallos Furioso!_ and “The Newest Shakespeare Society.” London,
T. Richards, 1876. Written to ridicule Mr. Furnivall, but never
performed.

_Galatea; or Pygmalion Re-versed_, burlesque, by H. P. Stephens.
Gaiety, December 26, 1883.

_The Gay Musketeers_; or, All for Number One, by Eldred and Paulton.
P. of Wales’s, Liverpool, April 18, 1870.

_Gentle Gertrude_, of the Infamous Redd Lyon Inn; or, Drugged and
Drowned in Digbeth! A melo-drammer in One Act, by T. E.
Pemberton. Liverpool Theatre, February 21, 1881; Gaiety, London,
May 14, 1884.

_George Barnwell Travestie._ See “Rejected Addresses,” by James and
Horace Smith.

_George de Barnwell_, burl., by Henry J. Byron. Adelphi, December
26, 1862.

_Georgy Barnwell_, by Montague Corri. Surrey T., May 27, 1844.

_The German Silvery King_, by Walter Burnot. Elephant and Castle,
March 24, 1883.

_Giddy Godiva_; or, the Girl that was sent to Coventry, by H. C.
Newton. Sanger’s Amphitheatre, Oct. 13, 1883.

_Giovanni in London_, or, The Libertine Reclaimed, by W. T.
Moncrieff. Drury Lane and Covent Garden, 1827.

_The Girls of the Period_, burl., by F. C. Burnand.

_Giselle_; or, the Sirens of the Lotus Lake, by Henry J. Byron.
Olympic, July 22, 1871.

_Godiva_, historical burlesque, by F. Talfourd and W. Hale. Strand,
July 7, 1851.

_The Golden Fleece_; or Jason in Colchis, a classical extrav., J. R.
Planché. Haymarket, March 24, 1845. J. Bland, Miss P. Horton,
Madame Vestris.

_The Golden Pippin_, by Kane O’Hara. Covent Garden, 1773.

_The Good Fairy of St. Helen’s_; or, King Coal and his Merry Men, by
James Brockbank. April 22, 1872.

_Good Old Barnes of New York_, by Walter Burnot. Ladbroke Hall,
September 25, 1888.

_The Goose and Golden Eggs_, by J. F. Draper (Amateur). Royal Hall,
Jersey. November 19, 1869.

_The Grand Duke of Camberwell_, by W. M. Akhurst. Elephant and
Castle, April 17, 1876.

_The Great Metropolis_, extrav., by F. C. Burnand. Gaiety, April 6,
1874.

_Great Sensation Trial_, or Circumstantial Effie-Deans, by W.
Brough.

_The Great Tragic Revival_, an absurdity, by John Brougham, Burton’s
Theatre, New York, 1858.

_Greenleaf the Graceful_, or the Palace of Vengeance, by W. R.
Osman. Royalty, February 26, 1872.

_The “Grin” Bushes!_ or, the “Mrs.” Brown of the “Missis”-Sippi.
Founded on the “Green Bushes.” By Henry J. Byron. Strand, Dec.
26, 1864. David James, J. Stoyle, Misses M. Simpson & Ada
Swanborough.

_Grizelle_; or Dancing Mad. A Legend of St. Vitus, by W. H. Oxberry.
English Opera House.

_The Guardians_, or is “Union” Strength? by “Ixion.”

_The Guilty Governess and the Downey Doctor_, by G. M. Layton.
Folly, May 8, 1876.

_Guy Fawkes_, by F. C. Burnand. Strand, Dec. 22, 1866.

_Guy Fawkes_, by Henry J. Byron. Gaiety, January 14, 1874. J. L.
Toole, Brough, Nellie Farren.

_Guy Mannering in a New Guise_, by Robert Reece.

_Half Crown Diamonds_, by Robert Reece. Holborn, Sept. 27, 1875. G.
Vincent, E. Atkins, J. H. Standing. New Version. Imperial
Theatre, October 2, 1880.

_Hamlet Travestie_, in three acts, with annotations by Dr. Johnson
and George Stevens, Esq., and other Commentators, by John Poole.
London, 1810.

_Hamlet Travestie_, by F. Talfourd. Oxford, J. Vincent, 1849.

_Hamlet the Hysterical_, a Delusion in Five Spasms. Princess’s,
November 30, 1874.

_Hamlet â la Mode_, an “absurdity,” by G. L. Gordon and G. W. Anson.
Prince of Wales’s, Liverpool, Oct. 16, 1876, and Opera Comique,
London, April 21, 1877.

_Hamlet whether He Will or No_, by George Booth. Alexandra Theatre,
Sheffield, June 2, 1879.

_Hamlet_; or, Not such a Fool as he Looks. For Amateur Performance.
Cambridge: W. Metcalfe & Son, 1882.

_Hamlet Improved_; or, Mr. Mendall’s attempt to ameliorate that
Tragedy, by Colonel Colomb, R.A. (This piece was not designed to
burlesque Shakespeare.)

_Hamlet the Dainty_, a Nigger drama.

_Handsome Hernani_; or, the Fatal Penny Whistle, by Henry J. Byron.
Gaiety, August 30, 1879. E. W. Royce, E. Terry, Misses E. Farren
and Kate Vaughan.

_The Happy Land_; a burlesque version of “The Wicked World,” by F.
Tomline and Gilbert A. àBeckett. Court, March 3, 1873. W. Hill,
Fisher, Righton, Miss Lottie Venn. This was prohibited by the
Lord Chamberlain on March 7, 1873, on account of its political
allusions, three of the principal characters having been “made
up” to represent Messrs. W. E. Gladstone, R. Lowe and Ayrton;
with certain alterations and omissions, the burlesque was again
performed, but it had lost its savour. It was printed by J. W.
Last & Co., Drury Lane.

_Harlequin Jack Sheppard_, or, the Blossom of Tyburn Tree;
satirising the dramas manufactured from W. H. Ainsworth’s novels.
Covent Garden Theatre, 1839.

_The Haunted Glen_, burl., by Harry Webber and Maidlow Davis. Royal
Artillery T. Woolwich, April 27, 1888.

_Here’s another Guy Mannering_, by F. C. Burnand. Vaudeville, May
23, 1874.

_Helen_; or, taken from the Greek, by F. C. Burnand. Prince of
Wales’, Liverpool, September, 30. 1867.

_Hercules and Omphale_, or, The Power of Love, a classical extrav.,
by William Brough. St. James’s, December, 26, 1864. Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Matthews, H. J. Montague, Misses Herbert and C. Saunders.

_Hermesianax_, burlesque. Derby, July 9, 1869.

_Herne the Hunter_, panto-burl., by Robert Reece and W. Yardley.
Gaiety, May 24, 1881.

_Haiwatha_; or, Ardent Spirits and Laughing Water, by Charles M.
Walcot. Wallack’s Theatre. New York, December 25, 1856.

_Hide and Seekyl_, by George Grossmith. See “Real Case.”

_Hit and Miss_; or, All my Eye and Betty Martyn, by F. C. Burnand.
Olympic, April 13, 1868.

_Hit or Miss; or, the Last of the Barons_, by Arthur Milton. Theatre
Royal, Middlesborough, February 19, 1883.

_How I found Crusoe_; or, the Flight of Imagination, by Alfred
Thompson. Olympic, December 28, 1870.

_The Hunchback back again_; or, Peculiar Julia, by F. C. Burnand.
Olympic, Dec. 23, 1879.

_Hypermnestra_; or, the Girl of the Period, by Frank Sikes. Lyceum,
March 27, 1869.

_Idle ’Prentice, The_; a Tyburnian Idyll of High, Low, Jack and His
Little Game, by H. B. Farnie. Strand T., Sept., 10, 1870.

_Ill-treated Il Trovatore_; or, the Mother, the Maiden and the
Musicianer, by Henry J. Byron. Adelphi, May 21, 1863. Paul
Bedford, J. L. Toole, Miss C. Nelson.

_Im-patience_, travestie, by Walter Browne. Prince of Wales’s
Theatre, Liverpool, August 25, 1884.

_Ingomar_, burlesque, by G. E. Jeffrey. T. R., Douglas, Isle of Man,
September 2, 1868.

_Ingomar the Idiotic_; or, the Miser, the Maid, and the Mangle, by
Messrs. Allan and Howard. Alfred Theatre, August 19, 1871.

_Innocentinez_; or, the Magic Pipe and the Fatal I.O.U., by H.
Adams, King’s Cross, March 29, 1876.

_Ino_; or, the Theban Twins, by B. J. Spedding. Prince of Wales’s,
Liverpool, August 30, 1869. Strand, London, October 30, 1869.
David James and T. Thorne.

_Ion_, by F. Fox Cooper. Garrick, November 9, 1836.

_Iphigeneia_; or, the Sail, the Seer, and the Sacrifice, by E.
Nolan. Performed at the Music Room, Oxford, by the St. John’s
College Amateurs. Commemoration 1866. Oxford: T. & G. Shrimpton.

_Isaac Abroad_; or, Ivanhoe Settled and Rebecca Righted, by Thomas
F. Plowman, T. R. Oxford, January 15, 1878.

_Isaac of York_; or, Saxons and Normans at Home, by T. F. Plowman.
Court, Nov. 29, 1871. E. Righton, Misses Cornélie D’Anka and Kate
Bishop.

_Ivanhoe_, by Henry J. Byron. Strand, December 26, 1862. H. J.
Turner, J. Clarke, James Rogers, Misses C. Saunders, E. Bufton,
Fanny Josephs.

_Ivanhoe_, the latest edition, by R. B. Brough. Haymarket, April 1,
1850.

_Ixion_; or, the Man at the Wheel, extrav. by F. C. Burnand.
Royalty, Sept. 28, 1863.

_Jack_; or, the Magic key. Queen’s Theatre, Dublin, April 14, 1879.

_Jack, the Giant Killer_, by H. J. Byron. Princess’s, December 26,
1859.

_Jack and the Beanstalk_, by Charles Millward. Adelphi, December 26,
1872.

_Jack Robinson Crusoe_; or, the Good Friday that came on Saturday,
by J. W. Jones. Windsor T., Oct. 14, 1876.

_Jane Shore_; or, the Fearful Penance and the Fatal Penny Roll, by
J. Wilton-Jones. Liverpool, August 16, 1880.

_The Japs_; or, the Doomed Daimio, Japanese burlesque, by Harry
Paulton and Mostyn Tedde. Originally produced at Prince’s
Theatre, Bristol, August 31, 1885, and at Novelty Theatre,
London, September 19, 1885.

_Joan of Arc_, burlesque, by William Brough. Strand, March 29, 1869
David James, Thomas Thorne, H. J. Turner, Misses E. Bufton, Bella
Goodall.

_Joe Miller, and his Men_, by Gilbert A. à Beckett. Princess’s.

_Julius See-saw_; or, Dauntless Decius the Doubtful Decemvir, by
Harry M. Pitt. Sheffield, March 29, 1869.

_Kenilworth_; or, Ye Queene, Ye Earle, and ye Maydenne, by Andrew
Halliday and F. Lawrance. Strand, Dec. 27, 1858. J. Clarke, H. J.
Turner, Misses M. Wilton, M. Oliver, C. Saunders and Swanborough.
Reproduced, Strand, July 21, 1866.

_Kenilworth_, burlesque-extravaganza, by R. Reece and H. B. Farnie.
Avenue, December 19, 1885.

_King Arthur_; or, the Days and Knights of the Round Table, by
William Brough.

_The King, the Ring, and the Giddy Young Thing_; or, Herne the
Hunter, Anne Boleyn, and the Fair Maid of the River Dee, by
George Reeves. Elephant and Castle, April 8, 1882.

_King’s Bounty_; or, the Deserter, by R. E. Lonsdale.

_King Coffee_; or, the Princess of Ashantee. Southport Theatre,
December 8, 1873.

_King John Travestie_, by Gilbert A. à Beckett. St. James’s, October
29, 1837.

_King Kokatoo_, by F. C. Burnand. Leeds, March 4, 1872.

_King Lear Burlesque_, by Mr. Marchant.

_King Lear and his Daughters Queer_, burl., by E. Elton.

_King Richard ye Thirde_, or ye Battel of Bosworth Field, by Charles
Selby. Strand, February 26, 1844.

_The Knight and the Sprite_; or, the Cold Water Cure! an Aquatic
Burl., by G. A. à Beckett and Mark Lemon. Strand, November 11,
1844.

_King Zany’s Daughter_; or, the Princess who was Blind of one Eye,
and could not see out of the other. By W. H. Bosbacca.

_The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, by Francis Beaumont and John
Fletcher. London, 1611. This was a burlesque upon the tasteless
affectations of the tales of chivalry, somewhat after the manner
of “Don Quixote.”

_La-Ba-Kan_; or, the Prince’s Nap and the Snip’s Snap, by J. E. Roe.
Swiss Gardens, Shoreham, June 7, 1869.

_Lady Godiva_; or, ye Ladye of Coventrie and ye Exyle Fayrie.
Strand, July 7, 1851.

_Lady Godiva_ burl., by Frederick Robson. T. R. Middlesbrough, May
5, 1873. Sadler’s Wells, Dec., 6, 1873.

_Lady of the Lake_, by Mortimer Thomson. Niblo’s Garden Theatre, New
York, U.S., June 21, 1860.

_The Lady of the Lake_, burlesque, by R. Whateley Taylor. Royalty,
April 21, 1862.

_The Lady of the Lake, Plaid_ in a new Tartan, burl., of Sir Walter
Scott, by R. Reece. Royalty, September 8, 1866, E. Danvers, Miss
M. Oliver.

_The Lady of the Lane_, burl., by H. J. Byron. Strand, Oct., 31,
1872.

_Lady of the Lions_, burl., by O. F. Durivage. Baltimore T., United
States, 1856.

_The Lady of Lyons Burlesque_, by M. Marchant.

_The Lady of Lyons_, burl., by Maurice G. Dowling.

_The Lady of Lyons_, burl., by W. Younge. Imperial T. April 23,
1879, Lionel Brough, C. Steyne, Miss L. Thompson.

_Ye Lady of Lyons_, by A. Lewis Clifton. Aquarium, Yarmouth, April
10, 1882.

_The Lady of Lyons Married and Settled_, by Herman C. Merivale.
Gaiety, October 5, 1878. E. Terry, E. W. Royce, Squire, Elton,
and Miss E. Farren.

_The Lady of Lyons Married, and Claude Unsettled_, absurdity, by R.
Reece. Royalty, Glasgow, Sept. 27, 1884.

_The Latest Edition of the Lady of Lyons_, by Henry J. Byron.
Strand, February 1, 1858.

_Latest Edition of Kenilworth_, by Andrew Halliday. Strand, Dec. 27,
1858.

_Latest Edition of the Lady of the Lake_, by R. Reece.

_The_ Very Latest Edition of the _Lady of Lyons_, by H. J. Byron.
Strand, July 11, 1859. J. Clarke, J. Rogers, H. J. Turner, Misses
C. Saunders, and M. Oliver.

_Lalla Rookh_; or, the Princess, the Peri, and the Troubadour by
William Brough. Lyceum, December 24, 1857. J. L. Toole, Mrs.
Alfred Mellon, Mrs. C. Dillon.

_Lalla Rookh_, an Oriental extravaganza, by Vincent Amcotts. Masonic
Hall, Oxford, Commemoration 1866, by the S. S. Amateurs. Oxford:
T. Shrimpton & Son, 1866. Also performed at the “Gallery of
Illustration,” London, June 19 and 20, 1868, by the “Shooting
Stars.”

_Lalla Rookh_, burl., by Horace Lennard. Novelty Theatre, May 1,
1884. Harry Nicholls, Misses M. Mario, Kate Vaughan, and Dot Mario.

_Lancelot the Lovely_; or, the Idol of the King, by Richard Henry.
Avenue, April, 1889. Arthur Roberts, E. D. Ward, Miss Vanoni.

_The Lass that Loves a Sailor_, or, the Perfidious Pirate, the
Modest Maiden, and the Trusty Tar, by Lloyd Clarance. T. R.,
Great Grimsby, September 17, 1883.

_The Last of the Barons_, burlesque, by L. H. Du Terreaux. Strand,
April 18, 1872.

_The Latest Edition of the Rival Othellos_, by Henry J. Byron.
Strand, 1876. Edward Terry, Marius, H. J. Turner. (A burlesque
upon Henry Irving and Salvini in their respective representations
of _Othello_).

_The Latest Yarn of the Crusoe Crew._ Ashton Theatre, July 16, 1883.

_Leah, a hearty joke in a Cab-age_, by W. Routledge. Gallery of
Illustrations, January 23, 1869.

_Leah_, burl. Southminster T., Edinburgh, June 15, 1868.

_Leo the Terrible_, Æsopian burl., by J. Stirling Coyne and Francis
Talfourd. Haymarket, December 27, 1852.

_Life in the Clouds_; or, Olympus in an Uproar, by John Brougham.
English Opera House, July 23, 1840.

_The Light of the Isles_, by Oswald Allan. Queen’s T. Dublin, August
21, 1876.

_Linda of Chamouni_; or, not Formosa, by Alfred Thompson. Gaiety,
September 13, 1869.

_Linda di Chamouni_; or, the Blighted Flower, by Conway Edwardes. T.
R. Bath, February 20, 1869.

_The Lions’ Lady_; or, How come you so? An anonymous burl. of “The
Lady of Lyons.” London, C. Whiting. 1838.

_Lion’s Tale_, or the Naughty Boy who wagged it, by R. Reece. Globe.

_Little Amy Robsart from a Comic Point of View._ Prince of Wales’s,
Liverpool, February 22, 1872.

_Little Ben Bolt_, by Edwin Keene. Gravesend T., June 24, 1879.

_Little Ben Bolt_, or the Meritorious Maiden and the Milli-cious
Miller, by Edwin Keene. Colchester, August 2, 1880.

_Little Billie Carlyle_; or, the Bell and the Hare, burlesque of
“East Lynne,” by W. J. Harbon. Prince of Wales’s, Wolverhampton,
April 18, 1881.

_Little Boy Blue_, by F. J. Watts. Shoreham, May 17, 1875.

_Little Carmen_, burl., by Alfred Murray. Globe, February 7, 1884.

_Little Cinderella_, J. Wilton Jones. Newcastle Theatre, June 25,
1887.

_Little Doctor Faust_, the Gaiety, not the Goethe Version, by H. J.
Byron. Gaiety, October 13, 1877. Edward Terry, R. Soutar, E. W.
Royce, Miss E. Farren.

_Little Don Cæsar de Bazan_; or, Maritana and the Merry Monarch. By
H. J. Byron. Gaiety, August 26, 1876. E. Terry, E. W. Royce,
Misses E. Farren and Kate Vaughan. (Revived in 1878.)

_Little Don Giovanni_, or Leporello and the Stone Statue, by Henry
J. Byron. Prince of Wales’s, December 26, 1865. J. Clarke, Miss
Marie Wilton and Miss F. Josephs.

_Little Don Quixote._ T. R., Cheltenham, April 9, 1883.

_Little Gil Blas_, and How He Played the Spanish D(j)euce, by H. B.
Farnie. Princess’s, December 24, 1870.

_Little Giselle_; or, the Sirens of the Lotus Lake, by Henry J.
Byron. Olympic, July 22, 1871. G. Belmore, D. James and Miss E.
Farren.

_Little Jack Sheppard_, by H. P. Stephens & W. Yardley. Gaiety, Dec.
26, 1885. David James, F. Leslie, Odell, Misses E. Farren,
Harriet Coveney, Marion Hood.

_Little Jack Carpenter._ T. R., Liverpool, May 15, 1875.

_Little Lalla Rookh_, burl.-extrav., by J. T. Denny. Originally
produced at Gaiety T., Hastings, August 31, 1885, and at Grand
T., London, September 14, 1885.

_Little Lohengrin_; or, the Lover and the Bird, by Frederick Bowyer.
Holborn T., August 16, 1884.

_Little Red Riding Hood_, burlesque, by C. H. Hazlewood.

_Little Red Riding Hood_, burlesque-extravaganza, by Leicester
Buckingham. Lyceum, Dec. 26, 1861.

_Little Robin Hood_, or Quite a New Beau, by Robert Reece. Royalty,
April 19, 1871.

_Little Robin Hood_, burlesque-drama, by R. Reece. Gaiety, Sept. 15,
1882. T. Squire, Arthur Williams, Robert Brough, J. Dallas,
Misses E. Farren, P. Broughton.

_Little Robinson Crusoe_, by David James, Jun. Oxford Theatre, April
13, 1885.

_Little Rip Van Winkle_, by R. Reece. Gaiety.

_Lord Bateman_, or The Proud Young Porter and the Fair Sophia, by
Henry J. Byron. Globe, Dec. 27, 1869.

_Lord Bateman_, by Charles Daly. Theatre Royal, Seaham Harbour,
April 17, 1876.

_Lord Lovel and Lady Nancy Bell_; or, the Bounding Brigand of
Bakumboilum, by F. C. Burnand. Written for the A. D. C.
Cambridge. November 21, 1856.

_Louis XI._; or, the Tricksey Monarch and the Wicksey Warrior, by
Harry M. Pitt. T. R. West Hartlepool, July 9, 1869.

_Love and Fortune_, by J. R. Planché, Princess’s, Sept. 24, 1859.
Frank Matthews, Misses Louise Keeley, and Carlotta Leclercq.

_Love’s Paradise._ Founded upon the legend of “Cupid and Psyche” in
the metamorphoses of Apuleius, by F. G. Westmacott Chapman.
Haymarket, April 6, 1874.

_Loves of Lord Bateman and the Fair Sophia_, burlesque by Charles
Selby. Strand, July 1, 1839. The Performers were dressed in the
costumes shown in George Cruikshank’s illustrations to the
Ballad.

_Lucrezia Borgia!_ At Home, and all Abroad, by Leicester Buckingham.
St. James’s, April 9, 1860.

_Lucrezia Borgia_, by Sydney French. Marylebone T., July 20, 1867.

_Lucrezia Borgia, M.D._, or La Grande Doctresse, by Henry J. Byron.
Holborn, October 28, 1868.

_Lucy of Lammermoor_, burlesque opera, by W. H. Oxberry. Strand,
February, 1848.

_Lucia di Lammermoor_, or the Laird, the Lady, and the Lover, by
Henry J. Byron. Prince of Wales’s, Sept. 25, 1865. Harry Cox, F.
Dewar, J. Clarke, Misses Marie Wilton, and F. Josephs.

_Lurline_, or the Rhine and the Rhino, by C. H. Hazlewood.

_Lurline_, by R. Reece & H. B. Farnie. Avenue, April 24, 1886.

_The Lying Dutchman, a Phantom Folly_, by Hue and Eye. Strand. Harry
Cox, Marius, Penley, Miss Lottie Venne.

_The Lying Dutchman_, by Frank W. Green and W. Swanborough. Strand,
December 21, 1876.

_Macbeth Travestie_, by W. K. Northall. Olympic T., New York,
October 16, 1843. Mitchell.

_Macbeth Travestie._ See “Rejected Addresses,” by James and Horace
Smith.

_Macbeth_, somewhat removed from the Text of Shakespeare, by Francis
Talfourd. First performed at Henley-on-Thames (Regatta), June 17,
1847; at the Strand, January 10, 1848; at Olympic, April 25,
1853. In the last instance F. Robson played Macbeth.

_Macbeth Mystified_, by W. H. Mason and J. E. Roe. Theatre Royal
Brighton, May 3, 1869.

_Madeira_; or W(h)ines from the Wood, by Henry Adams. King’s Cross,
October 25, 1875.

_The Mad Mother and her Lost Son_, burlesque of “Il Trovatore.”
Theatre Royal, Scarborough, April 21, 1884.

_The Magic Mirror_, burlesque spectacle, by Gilbert A. à Beckett.
Princess’s, December 26, 1843.

_The Magic Whisper Burlesque_, by C. H. Hazlewood.

_The Maid and the Magpie Travestie_; or, the Fatal Spoon, by Henry
J. Byron. Strand, October 11, 1858. J. Clarke, H. J. Turner, J.
Bland, Misses Marie Wilton, M. Oliver and Hughes.

_Man-Fred_, burlesque by Gilbert A. à Beckett. Strand, December 26,
1834. Mitchell, Miss P. Horton.

_The Marble Maiden_; or, Zampa in Miniature, by G. M. Layton.
Royalty, July 24, 1873.

_The Marble Maiden_, by J. H. Stocqueler. Lyceum, March 5, 1846.
Alfred Wigan, Mr. and Mrs. Keeley.

_The Marriage of Sir Gawaine_; or, King Arthur and the Knights of
the Round Table. T. H. Lacy, 1861. Not acted.

_Martha_; or, the Fair Lady, and the Farmer of Richmond Fair, by
Captain Arbuthnot. Plymouth, 1866.

_Martha_, burlesque, by Robert Reece. Gaiety, April 14, 1873.

_Mary Turner_, by F. C. Burnand. Holborn, Oct. 25, 1867.

_Masaniello_; or, the Fish’oman of Naples, by Robert B. Brough.
Olympic, July 2, 1857. F. Robson, Miss Hughes.

_Masse-en-Yell-Oh_, a riotous, socialistic travestie, by Harry
Paulton and “Mostyn Tedde.” Comedy, March 23, 1886.

_Mazeppa_, an equestrian burlesque, by C. White. N. York.

_Mazeppa_, by Henry J. Byron. Olympic, December 27, 1858. F. Robson,
H. Wigan, Miss Wyndham.

_Mazeppa_; or, “Bound” to Win, a Ride-diculous One-horse burlesque,
in Three Hacks, by F. C. Burnand. Gaiety, March 12, 1885. E.
Royce, E. Terry, Misses E. Farren, and P. Broughton.

_Mazourka_; or, the Stick, the Pole, and the Tartar,
burl.-extravaganza, by H. J. Byron. Strand, April 27, 1864.

_Medea_; or, the Best of Mothers, by R. B. Brough. Olympic, July 14,
1856. F. Robson, Emery, and Miss J. St. George.

_Mephisto_, travestie, by Byron M’Guiness. Royalty, June 14, 1886.

_Merchant of Venice travestie_, by F. Talfourd. Oxford, 1849.

_Merry Mignon_; or, the Beauty and the Bard, operatic-burlesque, by
J. Wilton Jones. Court Theatre, Liverpool, April 26, 1882.

_The Merry Zingara_; or, the Tipsy Gipsy, and the Pipsy Wipsy, a
whimsical parody on the “Bohemian Girl,” by W. S. Gilbert.
Royalty, March 31, 1868. F. Dewar, Danvers, Misses M. Oliver, and
C. Saunders. Published by Phillips, Regent Circus, London.

_Metamora_; or, the Last of the Pollywogs, by John Brougham.
Adelphi, Boston, U.S., November 29, 1847. Mr. and Mrs. John
Brougham.

_Midas_, by Kane O’Hara. Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 1762. Covent
Garden, London, February 22, 1764.

_The Midnight Spectre,!!!_ or, the Fatal Secret, a Richardsonian
melo-drama, by Nelson Lee, Junior. Crystal Palace (R.D.C.), July
21, 1861.

_The Miller of Mansfield_, burl. London. E. West, 1851.

_The Miller and his Men_, a burlesque mealy-drama, by Francis
Talfourd and Henry J. Byron. Strand, April 9, 1860. J. Clarke, J.
Rogers, Miss Marie Wilton.

_The Military Billy Taylor_; or, the War in Cariboo, by F. C.
Burnand. Royalty, April 22, 1869. F. Dewar, Danvers, Misses C.
Saunders and M. Oliver.

_Mind the Shop_, comedy-burlesque, by Robert Reece and Edward
Righton. Globe, April 22, 1878.

_Miss Eily O’Connor_, a burlesque of “The Colleen Bawn,” by Henry J.
Byron. Drury Lane, November 25, 1861. Tom Matthews, and Miss L.
Keeley.

_Miss Esmeralda_, by “A. C. Torr.” (Fred J. Leslie) and Horace
Mills. Gaiety, October 8, 1887.

_Miss Merrick_, burlesque-drama, by G. S. Brodie.

_Mr. Robert Roy, Hielan Helen, his Wife, and Dougal the Dodger_, by
William Lowe. Pavilion, Glasgow, December 11, 1880.

_The Mistletoe Bough_, by H. B. Farnie. Adelphi, December 26, 1870.

_Monte Christo Jun._, burlesque-melodrama, by “Richard Henry.”
Gaiety, December 23, 1886. G. Honey, F. Leslie, and Miss E. Farren.

_The Motto_, I am “all there,” by H. J. Byron. Strand, July 16,
1863.

_Moths à la Mode_, by F. Hugh Herbert. Princess’s Theatre,
Edinburgh, March 5, 1883.

_Moths Quitos_; or, Ouida’s Moths, by D. W. Edgar. Theatre Royal,
Middlesborough, April 21, 1882.

_Mountain Dhu_; or, the Knight! the Lady! and the Lake! by Andrew
Halliday. Adelphi, Dec. 26, 1866. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, Mrs.
A. Mellon, Miss Furtado.

_Much Ado about a Merchant of Venice._ From the Original Text――a
Long Way. By John Brougham. New York, 1868.

_My-fisto_, burlesque-extravaganza, by Vere Montague and Frank St.
Clare. T. R., Colchester, Jan. 24, 1887.

_Mysseltoe Bough Burlesque_, by Mr. Marchant.

_Nero_, a Romantick Fiddler, by T. H. Bayley. English Opera House,
August, 1833.

_The New Corsican Brothers_, by Cecil Raleigh. Royalty, November 20,
1889. Arthur Roberts.

_A New Edition of the Corsican Brothers_; or, the Kompact, the Kick,
and the Kombat, by W. H. Mason. Theatre Royal, Brighton, July 18,
1870.

_New Don Juan_, by J. B. Buckstone. Adelphi, 1828.

_The New King Richard the Third_, by C. H. Hazlewood. Britannia,
April 1, 1878.

_Nobody’s Cheild_, by H. T. Arden. Cremorne, August 10, 1868, and
Surrey, October 8, 1870.

_Noodledom_, by Edwin Marshall. Lecture Hall, Walworth, January 10,
1877.

_Norma_, burlesque, by J. H. Draper. Royal Hall, Jersey, March 5,
1875.

_Norma Travestie_, burlesque-burletta, by W. H. Oxberry. Adelphi,
December 6, 1841. Paul Bedford and Wright.

_The Norman Invasion_, burlesque, by J. M. Killick. Saint George’s
Hall, October 26, 1870.

_No Thorough-fair beyond Highbury_; or, the Maid, the Mother, and
the Malicious Mountaineer, by Mr. Hazlewood, Junior. Alexandra,
April 13, 1868.

_No Thoroughfare_, burl., by George Grossmith. Victoria, March 22,
1869.

_Nottingham Castle_, burl., by F. R. Goodyer. Nottingham Theatre,
September 22, 1873.

_Novelty Fair_, a review, by Albert Smith. Lyceum, May 21, 1850. C.
Mathews, F. Matthews, Julia St. George.

_The Nymph of the Lurleyburg_; or, the Knight and the Naiads, by
Henry James Byron. New Adelphi, Dec. 26, 1859. Founded on the
Legend of “Lurline.” J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, & Miss Woolgar.

_O Gemini!_ or, the Brothers of Co(u)rse, by Gilbert A. à Beckett
and Mark Lemon. Haymarket, April 12, 1852. J. B. Buckstone.

_The O’Dora: or, a Wrong Accent_, travestie of Sardou’s “Theodora,”
by F. C. Burnand. Toole’s, July 13, 1885.

_Oh! Aida, or a Game at Pyramids_.

_Oh! Those Babes_; or, the Unhappy Uncle, the Virtuous Villains, and
the Cheeky Children, by Will Clements. T. R., Woolwich, June 18,
1888.

_O’ Jupiter_; or the Fiddler’s Wife, by Frank Hall. Philharmonic,
October 2, 1880.

_Old Carlisle Bridge_; or, the Shame of the City, a burl. Dublin
Street drama, by William Scribble. Queen’s Theatre, Dublin, 1862.

_Old Izaak Walton_; or, Tom Moore of Fleet Street, the Silver Trout,
and the Seven Sisters of Tottenham. Panto-opening, by T. L.
Greenwood. Sadler’s Wells, December, 1858.

_Old Pals_, burlesque, by Lloyd Clarance. South Shields Theatre,
August 7, 1884.

_Oliver Grumble_, by George Dance. Prince of Wales’s T., Liverpool,
March 15, 1886. Novelty T., London, March 25, 1886.

_Olympic Games_; or, the Major, the Miner, and the
Cock-a-doodle-doo, by F. C. Burnand. Olympic, April 22, 1867.
Published by Phillips, Regent Circus, W.

_Olympic Devils_; or, Orpheus and Eurydice. A mythological
burlesque, by J. R. Planché. Olympic, Dec. 26, 1831. J. Bland, W.
Vining, Madame Vestris.

_Olympic Revels_; or, Prometheus and Pandora, by J. R. Planché.
Olympic, January 3, 1831. J. Cooper, Beckwith and Madame Vestris.

_On the Rink_; or, the Girl He left Behind Him, by F. C. Burnand.
Duke’s Theatre, February 26, 1876.

_Open Sesame!_ or a Night with the Forty Thieves.

_The Orange Tree and the Humble Bee_; or, the Little Princess who
was Lost at Sea, burlesque by Henry J. Byron. Vaudeville, May 13,
1871.

_Orlando ye Brave, and ye Fayre Rosalynde_; or, “As you Lump it.” A
Comycke Pastorale, by Master William Shakesydes. London, no date.

_Orpheus and Eurydice_; or, the Young Gentleman who charmed the
Rocks, by Henry J. Byron. Strand, Dec. 26, 1863. D. James, George
Honey, Marie Wilton.

_Orpheus_; or, the Magic Lyre, by F. C. Burnand. For Amateurs.
London, S. O. Beeton, 1865.

_Orpheus in the Haymarket_, by J. R. Planché. Haymarket, December
26, 1865.

_Othello Travestie_, burlesque-burletta, by Maurice G. Dowling.
Liverpool Theatre, Liverpool, March, 1834.

_The Other Little Lord Fondleboy_, travestie, by Frederick Bowyer.
Avenue, June 18, 1888.

_Our Cinderella_, by R. Reece. Gaiety, Sept. 8, 1883.

_Our Helen_, burlesque, adapted from “La Belle Helène,” by Robert
Reece. Gaiety, April 8, 1884.

_Our Own Antony and Cleopatra_, “an absurdity,” by F. C. Burnand.
Gaiety, September 8, 1873.

_Our Traviata_, burlesque, by W. F. Vandervell. Surrey Theatre,
September 14, 1857.

_Our War Correspondent_, burl., Leicester T., May 27, 1878.

_Out of the Ranks_, burlesque, by Robert Reece. Strand, June 3,
1884.

_Oxygen_; or, Gas in Burlesque Metre, by R. Reece and H. B. Farnie.
Folly, March 31, 1877.

_Paddy in the Moon Burlesque_, by C. H. Hazlewood.

_Pan_; or, the Loves of Echo and Narcissus, by H. J. Byron.

_Pandora’s Box_, by H. J. Byron. Prince of Wales’s, December 26,
1866.

_The Paphian Bower_; or, Venus and Adonis. A mythological burlesque,
by J. R. Planché. Olympic, Dec. 26, 1832. Benjamin Webster, W.
Vining, J. Bland, Madame Vestris.

_Papillonetta_, by W. Brough. Prince of Wales’s Theatre, Liverpool,
December 26, 1865.

_Paris_; or, Vive Lemprière, by F. C. Burnand. Strand, April 2,
1886. David James, Thomas Thorne, H. J. Turner, J. D. Stoyle.

_Patient Penelope_; or, the Return of Ulysses, by F. C. Burnand.
Strand, November 25, 1863.

_Paul and Virginia_, burlesque, by Arthur Wood. Olympic, October 15,
1870.

_Paul Clifford Burlesque_, by C. H. Hazlewood.

_Paw Clawdian_, or, the Roman Awry, a travestie of “Claudian,” by F.
C. Burnand. Toole’s, February 14, 1884. J. L. Toole, W. Cheesman,
Miss Marie Linden.

_The Peddler of Very Nice_, a burlesque of the Trial Scene in “The
Merchant of Venice.” Anonymous. Boston, U.S., Lee and Shepard,
1866.

_Pentheus_, an Echo of the Greek Drama, by Vincent Amcotts and W. R.
Anson. Oxford, T. and G. Shrimpton, 1866.

_The People’s William_; or, Randy the (W) Reckless and the Grand Old
Man all at Sea. Birkenhead T., May 12, 1884.

_Perdita_; or, the Royal Milkmaid, by W. Brough. Lyceum, September
15, 1856.

_Perola_; or, the Jewel and the Duel. Rotherham Theatre, March 19,
1883.

_Perseus and Andromeda_, burlesque, by William Brough.

_Peter Wilkins_, an extravagant extrav, by Gilbert A. à Beckett and
Mark Lemon. Adelphi, April 13, 1846.

_Peter Wilkins._ Panto-opening, by E. L. Blanchard. Drury Lane,
December, 1860.

_Phæton_; or, Pride must have a Fall, by William Brough. For
Amateurs. London: S. O. Beeton, 1865.

_Pickwick_, dramatic Cantata, by F. C. Burnand. Comedy, February,
1889. Arthur Cecil, Rutland Barrington, Miss Lottie Venne.

_Pietro Wilkini_; or, the Castaways, the Wild Men, and the Winged
Beauty, burlesque, by F. Eyles, Jun. Swiss Gardens, Shoreham,
August 18, 1870.

_Pirithous_, the Son of Ixion, burl., by F. C. Burnand.

_Pizarro_; a Spanish Rolla-King Peruvian Drama, by C. J. Collins.
Drury Lane, September 22, 1856. Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Mrs. Frank
Matthews, George Honey.

_Pizarro_; or, the Leotard of Peru, by Leicester Buckingham. Strand,
1862. James Rogers, J. Clarke, Misses Eleanor Bufton, and C.
Saunders.

_Pizarro, the Great Tyrant, burlesque_, by Mr. Marchant.

_Plucky Parthenia_, by Robert Reece. Portsmouth, February 26, 1874.

_Pluto and Proserpine_; or, the Belle, and the Pomegranate, by F.
Talfourd. Haymarket, April 5, 1858. Compton, Clark, Braid, Miss
L. Leclercq.

_Pluto_; or, Little Orpheus and His Lute, by H. J. Byron. Royalty,
December 26, 1881. W. J. Hill, C. Glenney, Miss Lydia Thompson.

_Po-ca-hon-tas_; or, the Gentle Savage, burlesque, by John Brougham.
Wallack’s Theatre, New York, U.S.

_Poll and Partner Joe_; or, the Pride of Putney, and the Pressing
Pirate, by F. C. Burnand. St. James’s, May 6, 1871. Lionel
Brough, H. Cox, Mrs. John Wood.

_The Pretty Druidess_; or, the Mother, the Maid, and the Miseltoe
Bough (founded on “Norma”), by W. S. Gilbert. Charing Cross, June
19, 1869. Published by Phillips, Regent Circus, London.

_Pretty Esmeralda and Captain Phœbus of Ours_, by Henry J. Byron.
Gaiety, April 2, 1879. E. Royce, Edward Terry, Misses E. Farren,
C. Gilchrist, and Kate Vaughan.

_Pretty Miss Pippin_, by Percy Vere (Amateur).

_Prince Cherry, and Princess Fair Star_, by E. J. Collins. Strand,
July 11, 1855.

_Prince Love_; or, the Fays of the Forest, by F. Vandervell.
Philharmonic Theatre, December 26, 1870.

_Prince Sohobazar_; or, Eighteen-carat Soup, burlesque-extrav., by
E. W. Bowles. Kilburn Town Hall, London, December 11, 1885.

_The Princess_, by W. S. Gilbert. Olympic, January 8, 1870.

_Princess Ida_; or, Castle Adamant. Respectful perversion of
Tennyson’s “Princess,” by W. S. Gilbert. Savoy T., January 5,
1884. R. Barrington, G. Grossmith, Misses Braham and Brandram.

_Princess Ouida_; or, Castle Adamandeve, by H. G. F. Taylor. London:
A. Hays, 1886.

_Princess Primrose_, by Messrs. Bellingham and Best. Olympic, June
13, 1866.

_Printer’s Devil_, burlesque extrav. Anonymous.

_Prometheus_; or, The Man on the Rock, by R. Reece.

_The Proscribed Royalist_; or, Who Stole the Ducks, by Frank
Seymour. Opera House, Leicester, August 1, 1881.

_Prospero_; or, the King of the Caliban Islands. Imperial Theatre,
December 26, 1883.

_Pygmalion_; or, the Statue Fair, by William Brough. Strand, April
20, 1867.

_Puss in a new pair of Boots_, by H. J. Byron. Strand, 1862.

_Quasimodo, the Deformed_; or, the Man with the Hump, and the Belle
of Notre Dame, by H. Spry. Grecian, April 18, 1870.

_Queen of Hearts_, burlesque. Sanger’s Amphitheatre, Ramsgate, July
14, 1884.

_The Quizziology of the British Drama_, comprising stage passions,
stage characters, and stage plays, by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett.
London, Punch Office, 1846. With this is usually found _Scenes
from the Rejected Comedies_. See “Scenes.”

_Randolph the Reckless_, extravaganza, by Victor Stevens. Salford
T., August 6, 1888.

_Rasselas_, Prince of Abyssinia, burlesque, by W. Brough. Haymarket,
December 26, 1862. Chippendale, Tilbury, Compton, Louise Keeley.

_Le Raw Carotte_, by G. Thorne. Margate T., Sept. 19, 1873

_Raymond and Agnes Burlesque_, by Mr. Marchant.

_The Real Case of Hide and Seekyll_, by George Grossmith. Royalty,
September 3, 1888. In this Mr. Lionel Brough cleverly imitated
both Mr. Mansfield & Mr. Bandmann.

_The Red Rover_; or, I believe you my Buoy, by F. C. Burnand.
Strand, Dec. 26, 1887. Marius, Cox, Miss Lottie Venne.

_The Rehearsal_, as it was acted at the Theatre Royal, London,
printed for Thomas Dring, 1672, by George Villiers, Duke of
Buckingham. This celebrated work burlesques passages in the plays
of Mrs. A. Behn, J. Dryden, Sir W. Davenant, Killigrew, and
others. The history of _The Rehearsal_, with notes, and parallel
passages has been ably written by Mr. Edward Arber in his series
of valuable English Reprints. It was first acted on December 7,
1671.

_The Rehearsal_, an Absurdity, by Harry Dacre.

_Revolt of the Workhouse_, burlesque-opera, by Gilbert A. à Beckett.
Fitzroy Theatre, February 24, 1834.

_Richard III._, travestie, by J. Stirling Coyne. Adelphi, February
12, 1844. Wright, Honey, and Miss Woolgar.

_Richard ye Third_, by Charles Selby. Strand, Feb. 26, 1844.

_Richelieu Redressed_, by R. Reece. Olympic, Oct. 27, 1873.

_Rienzi Reinstated_; or, the Last of the Cobbler, by W. A. Allan.
Globe, December 21, 1874.

_The Right-Fall Heir_; or, the Sea-Rover and the Fall over. By H. T.
Arden, 1868.

_The Right-Fellow_; or, the Wrong-Fellow and the Felo d’ye see? By
W. F. Marshall, R. N. School, New Cross, December 21, 1868.

_Rip Van Winkle_; or, Some Nambulistic Knickerbockers, by John
Strachan and Henry Davis. Newcastle Theatre, April 2, 1866.

_Rip Van Winkle_; or, a Little Game of Nap, by F. Savile Clarke.
Portsmouth Theatre, March 29, 1880.

_Riquet with the Tuft_, burlesque-extrav., by J. R. Planché.
Olympic, Dec. 26, 1836. Charles Mathews, J. Bland, Madame
Vestris, Miss R. Isaacs, Mrs. Anderson.

_The Rise and Fall of Richard III._; or, a New Front to an old
Dicky, a Richardsonian burlesque, by F. C. Burnand. Royalty,
September 24, 1868. Dewar, Misses C. Saunders, Nellie Bromley and
M. Oliver.

Published by Phillips, Regent Circus, London.

_The Rival Rascals_; or, Virtue Rewarded, and Vice Versa, by Alfred
Greenland, Jun. St. George’s May 3, 1877.

_The Rival Sergeants_, burletta, by William Collier. Sadler’s Wells,
April 5, 1847.

_Robert the Devil_; or, the Nun, the Dun, and the Son of a Gun, by
W. S. Gilbert. Gaiety, Dec. 21, 1868. J. G. Taylor, R. Soutar,
Miss E. Farren. Published by Phillips, Regent Circus, London.

_Robert Macaire_; or, the Roadside Inn Turned Inside Out, by Henry
J. Byron. Globe, April 16, 1870. J. Clarke, and Fanny Josephs.

_Robert Macaire Renovated_, by Lloyd Clarance. Barnsley Theatre,
March 3, 1884.

_Robert Make-Airs_; or, the Two Fugitives. Ethiopian burlesque, by
E. Warden. New York, 1856.

_Robin Hood_, burl. spectacle, by Messrs. Stocqueler, Shirley
Brooks, and Charles Kenny. Lyceum, May 4, 1846.

_Robin Hood._ Panto-opening by E. L. Blanchard. Drury Lane,
December, 1858.

_Robin Hood_; or, the Forester’s Fate, by F. C. Burnand. Olympic,
December 26, 1862.

_Robin Hood, Burlesque_, by William Brough. For amateurs. London: S.
O. Beeton, 1865.

_Robin Hood_, and the Merrie Men of Sherwood Forest, by George
Thorne and F. Grove Palmer, Margate, 1889.

_Robin Hood Burlesque_, by C. H. Hazlewood.

_Robinson Crusoe_; or, Harlequin Friday and the King of the Caribbee
Islands, by Henry J. Byron. Princess’s December 26, 1860.

_Robinson Crusoe_, burl., by H. J. Byron, Gilbert, Hood, Leigh,
Sketchley, & Prowse. Haymarket, July 6, 1867.

_Robinson Crusoe_; burl., by H. B. Farnie. Prince’s, Manchester,
October 7, 1876, Folly (London,) Nov. 11, 1876.

_Robinson Crusoe Revived_, by E. C. Bertrand. Dumfries Theatre,
February 5, 1877.

_Robinson Crusoe_; or, the Pirate Will, Pretty Poll, and Captain
Bill. Todmorden Theatre, October 29, 1883.

_Robinson Crusoe_, burl.-pantomime, by R. Reece and H. B. Farnie.
Avenue, December 23, 1886. Arthur Roberts, Miss P. Broughton.

_Rob Roy_, burlesque, by Sydney French. Marylebone T., June 29,
1867.

_Robbing Roy_; or, Scotched and Kilt, by F. C. Burnand. Gaiety,
November 11, 1879. Edward Terry, E. W. Royce, T. Squire, Misses
E. Farren, Kate Vaughan, and C. Gilchrist.

_Rob Roy_, his Great Wife and Small Family. By C. H. Hazlewood.

_Romeo and Juliet_, “as the Law Directs,” by Maurice G. Dowling.
Strand, May 1, 1837.

_Romeo and Juliet Travestie_; or, The Cup of Cold Pison, by Andrew
Halliday. Strand, November 3, 1859. H. J. Turner, Rogers, Clarke,
Misses Marie Wilton, C. Saunders.

_Romeo and Juliet_; or, the Shaming of the True, an atrocious
outrage, by E. Nolan. Perpetrated at Oxford, by the St. John’s
College Amateurs, during Commemoration, 1868. T. Shrimpton,
Oxford.

_Romeo the Radical, and Juliet the Jingo_; or, Obstruction and
Effect, by C. P. Emery. Alexandra Theatre, Walsall, August 14, 1882.

_Romulus and Remus_; or, Rome was not Built in a Day, a most
absurdly ridiculous burlesque in one Act, being an attempt at
something founded on Roman history, by T. F. Dillon Croker.
Privately printed, 1859.

_Romulus and Remus_; or, the Two Rum-’uns, by R. Reece, Vaudeville,
Dec. 23, 1872. James, Thorne, Nelly Power.

_The Roof Scrambler_, burlesque opera, by Gilbert A. à Beckett.
Victoria, June 15, 1835.

_The Rosebud of Stingingnettle Farm_; or, the Villainous Squire and
the Virtuous Villager. A burl.-drama by H. J. Byron. R.D.C.
Crystal Palace, 1862.

_Round the World in W’Eighty Days_, by Captain Fitz-George, Brighton
Theatre, March 13, 1877.

_The Rovers_; or, the Double Arrangement, by George Canning, George
Ellis, and John Hookham Frere. This originally appeared in “The
Anti-Jacobin,” about 1798. It is a caricature of the sentimental
German drama then fashionable.

_The Rows of Castille_, by Conway Edwardes. Brighton Theatre, March
4, 1872.

_The Royal Riddle_, burlesque, by Horace Mills. Woolwich Theatre
(Amateurs), February 16, 1887.

_Ruddy George_; or, Robin Red Breast, a musical parody, by H. G. F.
Taylor, and Percy Reeve. Toole’s T., March 19, 1887.

_Rumfastian Innamorato_, burlesque interlude. Oxberry, Harley,
Knight.

_Rumplestiltskin_; or, the Woman at the Wheel, by F. C. Burnand.

_Rumpelstiltskin!_ An extrav. for amateurs by M. W. Hallett

_Ruy Blas Righted_, by Robert Reece. Vaudeville. Jan. 3, 1874. D.
James, T. Thorne, and Kate Bishop.

_Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué_, by A. C. Torr & H. Clark. First
performed in Birmingham, Sept. 2, 1889. Gaiety, London, Sept. 21,
1889. Fred Leslie, C. Danby, F. Storey, Miss E. Farren. In this
burlesque Mr. Leslie’s caricature of Mr. Henry Irving’s
appearance and mannerisms was so pronounced that the Lord
Chamberlain insisted on the part being considerably modified.

_St. George and the Dragon_, by Gilbert A. à Beckett and Mark Lemon.
Adelphi, March 24, 1845.

_St. George and the Dragon_, burlesque, by F. C. Burnand. Written
for the A.D.C., Cambridge, and first performed Feb. 21, 1856,
when the author played the “Dragon.”

_St. George and the Dragon_, panto-opening by E. L. Blanchard.
Alexandra Palace, Dec. 1877.

_St. George and the Dragon_, burl. Torquay T. Aug. 6, 1883.

_Salammbo, the Lovely Queen of Carthage._ Holborn, May 6, 1871.

_Salthello Ovini._ Illegitimate tragedy. Haymarket, July 26, 1875.

_Sappho_; or, Look before you Leap! by F. C. Burnand. For amateurs.
London, S. O. Beeton, 1865.

_Sardanapalus_; or, the “fast” King of Assyria, by Gilbert A. à
Beckett and Mark Lemon. Adelphi, July 20, 1853.

_Sardanapalus_; or, the Light of Other Days, by H. Such Granville.
St. George’s Hall, December 23, 1868.

_Sardanapalus_, burl., by H. Such Granville. Limerick Theatre, May
15, 1868.

_The Scalded Back_; or, Comin’ Scars, travestie of Hugh Conway and
Comyns Carr’s “Called Back,” by W. Yardley. Novelty Theatre, July
12, 1884.

_Scenes from the Rejected Comedies_, by some of the competitors for
the Prize of £500 offered by Mr. B. Webster, Lessee of the
Haymarket Theatre, for the best original Comedy, illustrative of
English Manners. These amusing scenes were written by Gilbert A.
à Beckett, and parody passages of the plays of J. Sheridan
Knowles, Douglas Jerrold, Serjeant Talfourd, J. R. Planché, E.
Fitzball, Leigh Hunt, Mark Lemon, Sir E. B. Lytton, and of G. A.
à Beckett himself. London, Punch office, 1844.

_Seraphina the Fair_, by Charles W. Laidlaw. Public Hall, Southend,
December 26, 1874.

_The Seven Champions of Christendom_; or, Good Little St. George and
the Naughty Snap dragon, by W. R. Osman. Alexandra T., August 22,
1870.

_Shin Fain_; or, Ourselves Alone, by Tom Telephone. Dublin. J. Duffy
and Sons, 1882.

_The Siege of Seringapatam_; or, the Maiden of Mesopotamia, by F. C.
Burnand. For the Fête in aid of the Funds of the Hospital for
Incurables, 1863.

_The Siege of Troy_, burl., by Robert B. Brough. Lyceum, Dec. 27,
1858. J Rogers, Mrs. Keeley, Miss J. St. George.

_Shylock_; or, the Merchant of Venice Preserved, by F. Talfourd.
Olympic, July 4, 1853. F. Robson.

_Silver Guilt_, burl., by W. Warham. Strand, June 9, 1883.

_Sinbad_; or, the Dry-land Sailor, by James Horner. Coventry
Theatre, July 7, 1884.

_Sinbad the Sailor_; or, the “Tar” that was “Pitched” into, by Frank
W. Green. Princess’s, Edinburgh, March 31, 1878.

_Sindbad the Sailor_, by E. L. Blanchard. Crystal Palace, Dec.,
1876.

_Sir George and a Dragon_; or, We are Seven, burlesque, by F. C.
Burnand. Strand, March 31, 1870.

_Sir Marigold the Dottie_; or, the Moonlight Knight, by C. F.
Fuller, H.M.S. “Rainbow,” April 16, 1885.

_Sir Rupert the Fearless_, burl. extrav., by A. J. Seymour. Strand,
April 24, 1848.

_The Sleeping Beauty_; Her Seven Fairy Godmothers, and a Wicked
Fairy, by Charles Daly and B. Chatterton. Aldershot T., August 3,
1885.

_Snow Bound_, a dramatic entertainment, by George M. Baker. Contains
an original burlesque on “Alonzo the Brave, and the Fair Imogene.”
Boston, U.S.

_Snowdrop_, burlesque extravaganza, by F. C. Burnand. Royalty,
November 21, 1864.

_The Son of the Sun_; or, the Fate of Phæton. A classical burl., by
Gilbert A. à Beckett. Fitzroy T. Feb. 13, 1834.

_La Sonnambula Burlesque_, by C. H. Hazlewood.

_The Somnambulist_, a negro burlesque sketch, by H. Dacre.

_La! Sonnambula!_ or, the Supper, the Sleeper, and the Merry Swiss
Boy, by Henry J. Byron. Prince of Wales’s, April 15, 1865, the
opening night of Miss Marie Wilton’s management. F. Dewar, Harry
Cox, J. Clarke, Misses Marie Wilton, and Fanny Josephs.

_Il Sonnambulo and Lively Little Alessio_, by Henry J. Byron.
Gaiety, April 6, 1878. E. Terry, E. W. Royce, W. Elton, Miss E.
Farren.

_The Spanish Dancers_; or, Fans and Fandangoes, a Terpsichorean
burl., by Charles Selby. St. James’s Oct. 18, 1854. J. L. Toole,
Clarke, Misses Lydia Thompson, and E. Bufton.

_The Spectre of Shooter’s Hill_; or, the Broken Hot-cross Bun, by W.
Sallenger. Woolwich Theatre, Oct. 20, 1888.

_The Sphinx_, by the Brothers Brough. Haymarket, April 9, 1849. Mr.
and Mrs. Keeley, J. Bland, and Miss P. Horton.

_The Sphinx_; a Touch from the Ancients (a new version of the
Brothers Brough’s burlesque), by Walter Boult, Prince of Wales’s,
Liverpool, January 6, 1872.

_The Squires Maria_; or, Too, too Far from the Madding Crowd, by
Harry Adams. Hanley T., July 17, 1882.

_Stage-Dora_; or, Who Killed Cock Robin? travestie of Sardou’s
_Fédora_, by F. C. Burnand. Toole’s, May 26, 1883. J. L. Toole, E.
D. Ward, W. Cheesman, Miss Marie Linden.

_Stars and Garters_, burlesque, by Robert Reece and H. B. Farnie.
Folly, September 21, 1878.

_The Statue Bride_; an Echo of the Greek Drama, by Vincent Amcotts
and W. R. Anson, Oxford.

_Stranger_, burlesque, by W. D. Ward (for Amateurs), 1859.

_Stranger_, stranger than ever; by R. Reece. Queen’s, November 4,
1868.

_The Stranger Travestie._ See “Rejected Addresses,” by James and
Horace Smith.

_Success_; or, a Hit if you Like it, a Grand mock-heroical burletta,
by J. R. Planché. Adelphi, Dec. 12, 1825. T. P. Cooke, Yates,
Mrs. Fitzwilliam.

_Such a Guy Mannering_, by Mr. Strachan, Jun. Newcastle-on-Tyne
Theatre, April 27, 1868.

_The Tailors_ (or “Quadrupeds”), a Tragedy for Warm Weather, by
Samuel Foote. Haymarket, 1767. This burlesque was revived at the
Haymarket in 1805, on which occasion a number of London tailors
created a disturbance in and around the theatre.

_A Tale of Tell_; or, the Pole, the Patriot, and the Pippin, by
Lloyd Clarance. Darwen T., February 26, 1883.

_The Talisman_, burl., by J. F. M’Ardle. Liverpool T., Aug. 10,
1874, and Philharmonic, London, Mar. 29, 1875.

_Taming a Tartar_, burlesque, by Charles Selby. Adelphi, October 20,
1845.

_Tam O’Shanter_, burlesque, by W. Lowe, Opera House, Dundee,
February 10, 1873.

_Tantalus_; or, Many a Slip ’Twixt Cup and Lip, by Arthur Matthison
and Charles Wyndham. Folly, Oct. 14, 1878.

_Telemachus_; or, the Island of Calypso, by J. R. Planché. Olympic,
December 26, 1834. J. Bland, Wyman, Madame Vestris.

_Telemachus_; or, the Island of Calypso, by Stirling Coyne. Adelphi,
October 15, 1844.

_The Tempest_, the very last edition of, by A. H. O.

_The O’Dora_, a parody of Sardou’s _Théodora_, by F. C. Burnand.
Toole’s July 13, 1885. J. L. Toole and Miss Mary Linden, whose
imitation of Sara Bernhardt was particularly clever and comical.

_Theseus and Ariadne_; or, the Marriage of Bacchus. A classical
extrav., by J. R. Planché. Lyceum, April 24, 1848. C. Mathews,
Miss Fitzwilliam, Mdme. Vestris.

_Thespis_, burlesque, by W. S. Gilbert. Gaiety, J. L. Toole, Miss E.
Farren.

_The Three Calenders_, burl., by Charles Penruddocke.

_Three Graces_, by G. A. à Beckett. Princess’s April 17, 1843.

_The Three Musket Dears, and a Little One In_, by Joseph and Harry
Paulton. Strand, October 5, 1871.

_Timour_, the Cream of all the Tartars. Princess’s, March 24, 1845.

_Timour the Tartar_; or the Iron Master of Samarkand-by-Oxus, by
John Oxenford and Shirley Brooks. Olympic, December 26, 1860. F.
Robson, Horace Wigan.

_Timour the Tartar_; or, the Swell Belle of the Period, by Edward
Chamberlaine. Alexandra, Dec. 27, 1869.

_Tom Thumb_, by Kane O’Hara. Founded on Henry Fielding’s _Tragedy of
Tragedies; or, the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great_, first
performed at the Haymarket in 1730. O’Hara’s adaptation was
produced at the Covent Garden Theatre in 1780.

_Too Late for the Train_, a dramatic entertainment, containing burl.
scenes. G. M. Baker & Co., Boston, U.S.

_Too Lovely Black-eyed Susan_, perversion of Douglas Jerrold’s
drama, by Horace Lennard. Crystal Palace, April 2, 1888, and
Strand Theatre, April 11, 1888. Dan Leno and Miss Fannie Leslie.

_Tootsie’s Lovers_, by W. T. Le Queux. Brentford Theatre, April 19,
1886.

_Touch and Go_, burlesque, by Walter Andrews. Prince of Wales’s
Theatre, Liverpool, March 8, 1886.

_The Tragedy of Tragedies_; or, the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the
Great, by Henry Fielding. First acted in 1730. This contains
parodies of numerous passages in the Tragedies of Dryden, N.
Rowe, Thompson, and other writers whose works were then popular.

_Trovatore_; or, Larks with a Libretto, by Henry J. Byron. Olympic,
April 26, 1880. E. Terry, E. W. Royce, Misses E. Farren, C.
Gilchrist, and Kate Vaughan.

_Troy Again_, by E. A. Bowles (Amateurs). St. George’s Hall, March
13, 1888.

_Tumble-down Dick_; or, Phæton in the Suds, a Dramatic Entertainment
of Walking, in Serious and Foolish Characters. Interlarded with
Burlesque, Grotesque, Comic Interludes, as it is performed at the
New Theatre in the Hay-Market. By Henry Fielding. 1737.

_Turkish Waters_, a Tail of Coarse Hair; or, Medora’s Private Tear,
by Rowley Hill. Written for the A.D.C., Cambridge, and first
performed November 18, 1857.

_“Two” Much Alike_, burlesque comedietta, by G. Grossmith, Jun., and
A. R. Rogers. Gallery of Illustration, February 12, 1870.

_Two Gallows_; or, Slaves Escaped from Brixton, a Parody. Olympic,
1823.

_Ulf the Minstrel_; or, the Player, the Princess, and the Prophecy,
burlesque-extravaganza, by R. Reece. Royalty, May 31, 1866.

_Ulysses_; or, the Iron Clad Warrior, and the Little Tug of War, by
F. C. Burnand. St. James’s, April 17, 1865.

_Under Proof_; or, Very Much Above Pa, by Edward Rose, Princess’s,
Edinburgh, May 1, 1879.

_Undine Undone._ Halifax Theatre, April 21, 1873.

_Undine_, burl. Great Yarmouth Theatre, August 13, 1883.

_The Ups and Downs of Deal, and Black-eyed Susan._ Marylebone, June
10, 1867.

_Valentine and Orson_, burl.-drama, by R. Reece. Gaiety, December
23, 1882.