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Little Jack Sheppard

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Little Jack Sheppard is a burlesque melodrama written by Henry Pottinger Stephens and William Yardley, with music by Meyer Lutz, with songs contributed by Florian Pascal,Florian Pascal was a pseudonym for Joseph Williams, Jr. [1]

57 relations: Adrian Ross, Alfred Cellier, Arthur Cecil, Bentley's Miscellany, Botany Bay (song), Carmen up to Data, Cinder Ellen up too Late, David James (actor, born 1839), Edwardian musical comedy, Ellaline Terriss, F. C. Burnand, Faust up to Date, Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim, Frederick Hobson Leslie, Gaiety Theatre, London, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed, George Cruikshank, George Edwardes, Hamilton Clarke, Henry E. Dixey, Henry Pottinger Stephens, Islington, Jack Sheppard, Jack Sheppard (novel), Jacobitism, John Baldwin Buckstone, John Gay, John Hollingshead, Jonathan Wild, Joseph Blake (criminal), Licensing Act 1737, Lionel Brough, Lord Chamberlain, Marion Hood, Melbourne, Melodrama, Meyer Lutz, Miss Esmeralda, Nellie Farren, Operetta, Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg, Richard Corney Grain, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué, Seymour Hicks, Sylvia Grey, The Beggar's Opera, The Era (newspaper), The Literary Encyclopedia (English), ..., The Times, Victorian burlesque, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Shakespeare, William Thomas Moncrieff, William Yardley (cricketer), Willie Warde. Expand index (7 more) »

Adrian Ross

Arthur Reed Ropes (23 December 1859 – 11 September 1933), better known under the pseudonym Adrian Ross, was a prolific writer of lyrics, contributing songs to more than sixty British musical comedies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Alfred Cellier

Alfred Cellier (1 December 184428 December 1891) was an English composer, orchestrator and conductor.

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Arthur Cecil

Arthur Cecil Blunt (1 June 1843 – 16 April 1896), better known as Arthur Cecil, was an English actor, comedian, playwright and theatre manager.

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Bentley's Miscellany

Bentley's Miscellany was an English literary magazine started by Richard Bentley.

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Botany Bay (song)

"Botany Bay" is a song that can be traced back to the musical burlesque, Little Jack Sheppard, staged at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, in 1885 and in Melbourne, Australia, in 1886.

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Carmen up to Data

Carmen up to Data is a musical burlesque with a score written by Meyer Lutz.

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Cinder Ellen up too Late

Cinder Ellen up too Late is a musical burlesque written by Frederick Hobson Leslie (writing under the pseudonym A. C. Torr) and W. T. Vincent, with music arranged by Meyer Lutz from compositions by Lionel Monckton, Sidney Jones, Walter Slaughter, Osmond Carr, Scott Gatti, Jacobi, Robertson, and Leopold Wenzel.

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David James (actor, born 1839)

David James (born David Belasco) (1839 – 2 October 1893) was an English comic actor and one of the founders of London's Vaudeville Theatre.

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Edwardian musical comedy

Edwardian musical comedy was a form of British musical theatre that extended beyond the reign of King Edward VII in both direction, beginning in the early 1890s, when the Gilbert and Sullivan operas' dominance had ended, until the rise of the American musicals by Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hart, George Gershwin and Cole Porter following the First World War.

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Ellaline Terriss

Mary Ellaline Terriss, Lady Hicks (13 April 1871 – 16 June 1971), known professionally as Ellaline Terriss, was a popular English actress and singer, best known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies.

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F. C. Burnand

Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (29 November 1836 – 21 April 1917), usually known as F. C. Burnand, was an English comic writer and prolific playwright, best known today as the librettist of Arthur Sullivan's opera Cox and Box.

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Faust up to Date

Faust up to Date is a musical burlesque with a score written by Meyer Lutz (a few songs by others were interpolated into the show).

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Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim

Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim (sometimes called Frankenstein, or The Model Man) is a musical burlesque written by Richard Henry (a pseudonym of Richard Butler and Henry Chance Newton).

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Frederick Hobson Leslie

Frederick George Hobson, known as Fred Leslie (1 April 1855 – 7 December 1892), was an English actor, singer, comedian and dramatist.

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Gaiety Theatre, London

The Gaiety Theatre was a West End theatre in London, located on Aldwych at the eastern end of the Strand.

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Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed

Galatea, or Pygmalion Re-Versed is a musical burlesque that parodies the Pygmalion legend, and specifically W. S. Gilbert's 1871 play Pygmalion and Galatea.

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George Cruikshank

George Cruikshank (27 September 1792 – 1 February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life.

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George Edwardes

George Joseph Edwardes (né Edwards) (8 October 1855 – 4 October 1915) was an English theatre manager and producer of Irish ancestry who brought a new era in musical theatre to the British stage and beyond.

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Hamilton Clarke

James Hamilton Siree Clarke (25 January 1840 – 9 July 1912), better known as Hamilton Clarke, was an English conductor, composer and organist.

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Henry E. Dixey

Henry E. Dixey (January 6, 1859 – February 25, 1943) was an American actor and theatre producer.

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Henry Pottinger Stephens

Henry Pottinger Stephens, also known as Henry Beauchamp (1851 – 11 February 1903), was an English dramatist and journalist.

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Islington

Islington is a district in Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington.

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Jack Sheppard

Jack Sheppard (4 March 1702 – 16 November 1724) was a notorious English thief and gaol-breaker of early 18th-century London.

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Jack Sheppard (novel)

Jack Sheppard is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth serially published in Bentley's Miscellany from 1839 to 1840, with illustrations by George Cruikshank.

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Jacobitism

Jacobitism (Seumasachas, Seacaibíteachas, Séamusachas) was a political movement in Great Britain and Ireland that aimed to restore the Roman Catholic Stuart King James II of England and Ireland (as James VII in Scotland) and his heirs to the thrones of England, Scotland, France and Ireland.

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John Baldwin Buckstone

John Baldwin Buckstone (14 September 1802 – 31 October 1879) was an English actor, playwright and comedian who wrote 150 plays, the first of which was produced in 1826.

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John Gay

John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club.

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John Hollingshead

John Hollingshead (9 September 1827 – 9 October 1904) was an English theatrical impresario, journalist and writer during the latter half of the 19th century.

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Jonathan Wild

Jonathan Wild also spelled Wilde (1682 or 1683 – 24 May 1725) was a London underworld figure notable for operating on both sides of the law, posing as a public-spirited crimefighter entitled the "Thief-Taker General".

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Joseph Blake (criminal)

Joseph "Blueskin" Blake (baptised 31 October 1700 – 11 November 1724) was an 18th-century English highwayman and felon.

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Licensing Act 1737

The Licensing Act of 1737 was a pivotal moment in theatrical history.

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Lionel Brough

Lionel Brough (10 March 1836 – 9 November 1909) was a British actor and comedian.

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Lord Chamberlain

The Lord Chamberlain or Lord Chamberlain of the Household is the most senior officer of the Royal Household of the United Kingdom, supervising the departments which support and provide advice to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom while also acting as the main channel of communication between the Sovereign and the House of Lords.

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Marion Hood

Marion Hood (1 April 1854 – 14 August 1912) was an English soprano who performed in opera and musical theatre in the last decades of the 19th century.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Melodrama

A melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to the emotions, takes precedence over detailed characterization.

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Meyer Lutz

Wilhelm Meyer Lutz (19 May 1829 – 31 January 1903) was a German-born British composer and conductor who is best known for light music, musical theatre and burlesques of well-known works.

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Miss Esmeralda

Miss Esmeralda is a Victorian burlesque, in two acts, with music by Meyer Lutz and Robert Martin and a libretto by Fred Leslie, under his pseudonym "A.

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Nellie Farren

Nellie Farren (16 April 1848 – 29 April 1904) was an English actress and singer best known for her roles as the "principal boy" in musical burlesques at the Gaiety Theatre.

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Operetta

Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".

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Richard Corney Grain

Richard Corney Grain (26 October 1844 – 16 March 1895), known by his stage name Corney Grain, was an entertainer and songwriter of the late Victorian era.

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Royal Lyceum Theatre

The Royal Lyceum Theatre is a 658-seat theatre in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, named after the Theatre Royal Lyceum and English Opera House, the residence at the time of legendary Shakespearean actor Henry Irving.

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Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué

Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué is a burlesque written by A. C. Torr and Herbert F. Clark with music by Meyer Lutz.

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Seymour Hicks

Sir Edward Seymour Hicks (30 January 1871 – 6 April 1949), better known as Seymour Hicks, was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, screenwriter, actor-manager and producer.

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Sylvia Grey

Sylvia Grey (1866–1958) was an English actress and dancer best remembered for her roles in burlesque productions in London during the Victorian era.

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The Beggar's Opera

The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch.

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The Era (newspaper)

The Era was a British weekly paper, published from 1838 to 1939.

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The Literary Encyclopedia (English)

The Literary Encyclopedia is an online reference work first published in October 2000.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Victorian burlesque

Victorian burlesque, sometimes known as travesty or extravaganza, is a genre of theatrical entertainment that was popular in Victorian England and in the New York theatre of the mid 19th century.

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William Harrison Ainsworth

William Harrison Ainsworth (4 February 1805 – 3 January 1882) was an English historical novelist born at King Street in Manchester.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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William Thomas Moncrieff

William Thomas Moncrieff (24 August 1794 – 3 December 1857) commonly referred as W.T. Moncrieff was an English dramatist.

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William Yardley (cricketer)

William Yardley (10 June 1849 – 28 October 1900) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club from 1868 to 1878 and for Cambridge University from 1869 to 1872.

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Willie Warde

Willie Warde (1857 – 18 August 1943) was an English actor, dancer, singer and choreographer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Jack_Sheppard

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