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Authors and Titles

Authors and Titles: Introduction

Author entries consist of a surname followed by given name(s) and function—Author, Composer, etc.  If the author is better known by an initial and his middle name, then the entry records this—C. Pelham Thompson, S. Theyre Smith.

Special consideration is also given to composers.  Music was an important ingredient in many Adelphi productions, and we have included composers of full-length pieces in this index.  There were musical farces, comic operas, and a multitude of contrivances to avoid the wrath of the censor in the first years of the Nineteenth Century.  Likewise, since a ballet is technically a complete piece and because the Adelphi performed many of them in its earlier days, choreographers are, rightly, considered authors and indexed as such.

In the main index, authors and titles are given in full and set in boldface type.  Subtitles are cross-indexed to their main titles.  Genre follows each title.  While a very broad definition of what constitutes a piece has been used, certain activities at the theatre are not included in this index, such as edifying lectures, oratorios, and orchestral concerts.  In the Sans Pareil's opening season, 1806-1807, no plays, ballets, or operas were performed; however, the editors feel a record of this initial season should be kept, and they entered some performances as if they were dramatic.

One of the more irritating features of nineteenth-century playbills is the absence of authors' names.  For many years, the bills had more to say about the direction in which carriage horses' heads should face after a performance than about the dramatists.  Names of authors supplied by editors are enclosed in brackets; partial names are expanded.  If a middle initial does not appear in the source but is known, it is added without editorial comment.  Needless to say, the editors are deeply indebted to the nineteenth-century volumes of Allardyce Nicolls' History of English Drama.

Under the author's name, the user will find a list of all his or her pieces played at the Adelphi and their dates of performance.  It is important to note only performance dates are entered since the index is derived entirely from calendar entries.  A play may well have been written and performed years before it appeared on the Adelphi stage—though many were written expressly for the house.  After a piece was first performed, different authors, composers, arrangers, and choreographers sometimes altered it.  These new names are treated as additional authorial information and appended to the title entry and also listed independently.

There are almost two hundred pieces whose authorship remains a mystery.  Such pieces are listed by title and indexed under the heading "Unknown."

The majority of plays had a main and a subtitle.  Basically, the main title was followed by a semi-colon, the word "or" and a comma.  Sometimes the subtitle was billed without the main title, so a cross-reference system has been devised.  In such cases, in addition to their inclusion as part of the full title entry, subtitles are presented with the symbol = followed by the main title: Brown Studies = My Absent Son (Farce).

When possible, the playbill is the primary source of titles and authors, but other major sources consulted include Allardyce Nicoll's invaluable History of English Drama 1660-1900, the Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum: Plays Submitted to the Lord Chamberlain 1824-1851, and James Ellis's English Drama of the Nineteenth Century: An Index and Finding Guide, the Dictionary of National Biography, and Groves' Dictionary of Music and Musicians.  Many theatre journals were examined, and advertisements in the Times proved invaluable.

Here is a typical index entry:

All at Coventry; or, Love and Laugh (Farce); See Moncrieff, William T. (Author)

MONCRIEFF, William T. (Author) All at Coventry; or, Love and Laugh (Farce) 1824, 1825 Bringing Home the Bride; or, The Husband's First Journey (Vaudeville) 1830 …..

Love and Money (Melodrama) See Reade, Charles (Author), Pettitt, Henry (Author); Ellis, Edwin (Composer)

Authors: Index

A

à Beckett, Gilbert A. (Author)
Adam, Adolphe C. (Composer)
Addison, Henry R. (Author)
Addison, John (Composer)
Albery, James (Author)
Allingham, John T. (Author)
Amherst, John H. (Author)
Arnold, Samuel J. (Author)
Auber, Daniel F. (Author)
Augier, Emile (Author)
Auld (Choreographer)
Austin (Choreographer)
Ayton, Richard (Author)

B

Baker, Thomas (Composer)
Balfe, Michael W. (Composer)
Banim, John (Author)
Barnett, Charles Z. (Author)
Barnett, John (Composer)
Barnett, Miss Millie (Choreographer)
Barnett, Morris (Author)
Barnett, Morris (Composer)
Barrett, Oscar (Composer)
Bateman, Sidney F. (Author)
Bayley, Frederick W. (Composer)
Bayly, Thomas H. (Author)
Baynem (Author)
Beazley, Samuel, Jr. (Author)
Becher, Martin (Author)
Belasco, David (Author)
Bellew, H. Kyrle (Author)
Bellini, Vincenzo (Composer)
Benedict, Julius (Composer)
Bernard, William B. (Author)
Beverley, Henry R. (Author)
Bickerstaffe, Isaac (Author)
Bisgood, Joseph J. (Author)
Bishop, Henry R. (Composer)
Blake, Thomas G. (Author)
Blanchard, Edward L. (Author)
Blewitt, Jonathan (Composer)
Bologna, John P. (Choreographer)
Boucicault, Dion L. (Author)
Boulding, James W. (Author)
Bowes (Author)
Brazier, Nicholas (Author)
Bridgeman, John V. (Author)
Brooke, Mrs. Frances (Author)
Brooklyn, Hartbury (Author)
Brooks, Charles W. (Adapter)
Brooks, Charles W. (Author)
Brough, Robert B. (Author)
Brough, William (Author)
Brougham, John (Author)
Brunswick, Leon (Author)
Brunton, John (Author)
Buchanan, Robert (Author)
Buckingham, Leicester S. (Author)
Buckstone, John B. (Author)
Buckton (Author)
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. (Author)
Bunn, Alfred (Author)
Burnand, Francis C. (Author)
Butler, Richard (Author)
Byrne, Oscar (Author)
Byrne, Oscar (Choreographer)
Byron, Henry J. (Adapter)
Byron, Henry J. (Author)

C

Calcott, John F. (Composer)
Callcott, William H. (Composer)
Campbell, J. M. (Author)
Carr, J. Comyns (Author)
Céleste, Mme. Céline (Choreographer)
Chambers, C. Haddon (Author)
Cheltnam, Charles S. (Author)
Clements, Arthur (Author)
Coape, Henry C. (Author)
Cofe (Author)
Coffey, Charles (Author)
Collins, W. Wilkie (Author)
Colman, George (Author)
Colman, George, Jr. (Author)
Cooke, Thomas S. (Composer)
Cooper, Frederick F. (Author)
Cormack, John (Choreographer)
Corri, Montague P. (Choreographer)
Corri, Montague P. (Composer)
Coyne, Joseph S. (Author)
Croker, Thomas C. (Author)
Crook, John (Composer)
Cuthbert, Ernest (Author)

D

d'Artois, Mons. Armand (Adapter)
d'Artois, Mons. Armand (Author)
D'Ennery, Adolphe P. (Author)
Dalrymple (Author)
Daly, Augustin (Author)
Dance, Charles (Author)
Dance, George (Author)
Daniel, George (Author)
Davy, John (Composer)
de Boirie, Eugene C. (Author)
de Girardin, Mme. Delphine (Author)
de Lesser, Auguste Creuze (Author)
De Mille, Henry C. (Author)
de Musset, Mons. Alfred (Author)
de Rochfort, Claude L. (Author)
de Rougemont, Michel-Nicolas Balisson (Author)
De Trueba, Joaquin T. (Author)
Desaugier, Mons. Marc-Antoine M. (Author)
Deulin, Herr Nicolo (Choreographer)
Dewinne, Henri (Choreographer)
Dibdin, Charles (Author)
Dibdin, Charles (Composer)
Dibdin, Charles I. (Author)
Dibdin, Thomas J. (Author)
Dickens, Charles (Author)
Didelot, Mons. Charles-Louis (Choreographer)
Dimond, William (Author)
Dircks, Rudolph (Author)
Doche (Composer)
Donizetti, D. Gaetano (Composer)
Dorrington, G. (Author)
Drayton, Henri (Composer)
Dubois, Mons. Alfred (Author)
Dubourg, Augustus W. (Author)
Duggan, Joseph F. (Composer)
Dumanois, Philippe F. (Author)
Dumas, Mons. Alexandre, fils (Author)
Dumersan, T. M. (Author)
Duport, Paul (Author)
Duval, Alexander (Author)
Duval, Georges L. (Author)
Duvert, Mons. Felix-Auguste (Author)

E

Edwardes, George (Author)
Edwards, H. Sutherland (Author)
Ellis, Edwin (Composer)
Etienne, Mons. Charles-Guillaume (Author)
Euripides (Author)
Evans, Frederick (Choreographer)

F

Falconer, Edmund (Author)
Farnie, Henry B. (Author)
Farrell, John (Author)
Faucit, John S. (Author)
Fawcett, John (Author)
Fechter, Charles A. (Author)
Fielding, Henry (Author)
Fisher, David (Author)
Fisher, Joshua B. (Author)
Fitzball, Edward (Author)
Fitzwilliam, Edward F. (Composer)
Flexmore, Richard, Jr. (Choreographer)
Forde, William (Composer)
Frampton, Fred (Choreographer)
Furst, William W. (Composer)
Fyles, Franklin (Author)

G

Gabriel (Author)
Garrick, David (Author)
Gaveaux, Mons. Pierre (Composer)
Gay, John (Author)
Gayler, Charles (Author)
Gilbert, William S. (Author)
Gillette, William H. (Author)
Giroux, Gabriel (Choreographer)
Goldberg, Max (Author)
Goodwin (Choreographer)
Gordon, Walter (Author)
Gore, Mrs. Catherine G. (Author)
Goss (Composer)
Gounod, Charles F. (Composer)
Grattan, Henry P. (Author)
Greenwood, Thomas L. (Author)
Grisar, Albert (Composer)
Grover, John H. (Author)
Grundy, Sydney (Author)
Guerrero, Don Manuel (Choreographer)

H

Haines, John T. (Author)
Halévy, Ludovic (Author)
Hall, Mrs. Anna M. (Author)
Hall, Charles (Composer)
Halliday, Andrew (Author)
Harding, C. T. (Author)
Hardwicke, Pelham (Author)
Harrington, Nicholas H. (Author)
Harris, Augustus G. (Author)
Hartland, Frederick (Author)
Harvey (Choreographer)
Harvey, Frank (Author)
Hatton, John L. (Composer)
Hawes, William (Arranger)
Hawes, William (Composer)
Hazlewood, Miss (Author)
Hazlewood, Colin H. (Author)
Henry, W. (Author)
Herbert, G. C. (Author)
Herbert, George B. (Composer)
Hicks, Seymour (Author)
Hoadley, Benjamin (Author)
Holcroft, Thomas (Author)
Holl, Henry (Author)
Holland, John (Author)
Hollingshead, John (Author)
Holmes (Composer)
Holst, Mathias von (Composer)
Hood, Thomas (Author)
Horne, F. Lennox (Author)
Hullin, Mons. Jean-Baptiste (Choreographer)
Humphreys (Author)

I

Inchbald, Mrs. Elizabeth (Author)
Irving, Laurence (Author)

J

Jackson, John P. (Adapter)
Jefferson, Joseph (Author)
Jerrold, Douglas W. (Author)
Jerrold, William B. (Author)
Joddrel, Richard P. (Author)
Johannot, Tony (Author)
Johnson, Samuel D. (Author)
Jolly, John (Composer)
Jones, Edward (Composer)
Jones, James (Choreographer)
Jones, John (Choreographer)
Jordan, Mrs. Dorothea (Author)
Jullien, Mons. Louis A. (Composer)

K

Kearns, William H. (Composer)
Kemble, Mrs. Marie-Therese (Author)
Kenney, Charles L. (Author)
Kenney, James (Author)
Kimpton, F. (Author)
Kirby, William (Choreographer)
Knight, Thomas (Author)
Knowles, James S. (Author)

L

L'Herik, Victor (Author)
Lang, John (Author)
Langford, John A. (Author)
Lanner, Mme. Katti (Choreographer)
Latham, Frederick G. (Author)
Lawrence (Composer)
Lawrence, Miss Eweretta (Author)
Leach, Harvey (Author)
Leclercq, Charles (Choreographer)
Lee, G. Alexander (Composer)
Lee, Nelson, Jr. (Author)
Lee, R. Nelson (Author)
Lemon, Harry (Author)
Lemon, Mark (Adapter)
Lemon, Mark (Author)
Lennard, Horace (Author)
Lesage, Alain R. (Author)
Levey, William C. (Composer)
Lewis, Leopold (Author)
Linley, George (Composer)
Locke, Mathew (Composer)
Loder, Edward J. (Composer)
Louis, Madame (Choreographer)
Love, William E. (Author)
Lover, Samuel (Author)
Lubimoff, A. (Author)
Lucas, William J. (Author)
Lunn, Joseph (Author)
Lutz, Mayer (Arranger)
Lynch, Thomas J. (Author)

M

Mackenzie, Alexander C. (Composer)
Macklin, Charles (Author)
Maddison, George W. (Composer)
Maltby, Alfred (Author)
Manuel, E. (Author)
Marryat, Miss Florence (Author)
Marschner, Heinrich A. (Composer)
Marston, John W. (Author)
Martyn, Charles (Composer)
Mathews, Charles (Author)
Mathews, Charles J. (Author)
Matthison, Arthur (Author)
Mayhew, Augustus (Author)
Mayhew, Henry (Author)
Meadows, Thomas (Author)
Meilhac, Henri (Author)
Melesville, Anne Honore (Author)
Mellon, Alfred (Arranger)
Mellon, Alfred (Composer)
Meritt, Paul (Author)
Merivale, Herman Charles (Author)
Merle, Jean-Toussaint (Author)
Meyder, Karl (Composer)
Meyerbeer, Giacomo J. (Composer)
Mildenhall, T. (Author)
Millar, T. (Composer)
Millars, Haydn (Composer)
Milliken, Richard A. (Author)
Millingen, John G. (Author)
Millward, Charles (Author)
Milman, Henry H. (Author)
Milner, Henry M. (Author)
Moliere (Author)
Moncrieff, William T. (Author)
Montignani, Sig. Francisco A. (Choreographer)
Moore, F. (Author)
Morris (Composer)
Mortimer, James (Author)
Morton, John M. (Author)
Morton, W. E. (Author)
Mosenthal, Solomon H. (Adapter)
Moss, M. (Composer)
Mozart, Herr Wolfgang A. (Composer)
Musgrave, Frank (Composer)

N

Neville, George F. (Author)
Nicholson (Composer)
Nightingale, Joseph H. (Author)

O

O'Callaghan, P. P. (Author)
O'Hara, Kane (Author)
O'Keefe, John (Author)
Offenbach, Jacques (Composer)
Owens, John E. (Author)
Oxberry, William H. (Author)
Oxenford, John (Adapter)
Oxenford, John (Author)

P

Pardoe, Miss Julia S. (Author)
Parnell, Michael (Composer)
Parry, John O. (Composer)
Parry, Thomas (Author)
Paul, Howard (Author)
Payne, John H. (Author)
Peake, Richard B. (Author)
Pettitt, Henry (Author)
Phillips, Watts (Author)
Pilati, Auguste (Composer)
Pitt, George D. (Author)
Planché, James R. (Author)
Pocock, Isaac (Author)
Poole, John (Author)
Power, Tyrone (Author)
Price (Composer)
Puget, Paul (Composer)
Pugni, Signor Cesare (Composer)

R

Racine, Mons. Jean (Author)
Raymond, Richard J. (Author)
Rayner, Barnabas F. (Author)
Reade, Charles (Adapter)
Reade, Charles (Author)
Rede, William L. (Author)
Reece, Robert (Author)
Reed, Thomas G. (Composer)
Reeve, George W. (Composer)
Reeve, John (Author)
Remon, W. (Translator)
Reynolds, Francis (Author)
Reynolds, Frederic (Author)
Rhodes, William B. (Author)
Rice, Thomas D. (Author)
Richards (Author)
Ries, Ferdinand (Composer)
Riviere, Jules P. (Composer)
Robertson, Thomas W. (Author)
Roche, Alexander D. (Composer)
Rodwell, George H. (Author)
Rodwell, George H. (Composer)
Rodwell, James T. (Author)
Rostand, Mons. Edmond (Author)
Rowe, George F. (Author)
Russell, W. H. (Composer)
Ryall (Choreographer)
Ryall (Composer)
Ryan, Richard (Author)

S

St. Albin (Choreographer)
Sanderson, James (Composer)
Sardou, Victorien (Author)
Sawyer, William (Author)
Schepens, Adolphe (Composer)
Schou, Oscar H. (Adapter)
Scott, Clement W. (Author)
Scott, Miss Jane M. (Adapter)
Scott, Miss Jane M. (Author)
Scott, Walter (Author)
Scribe, Eugene (Author)
Searle, Mrs. Caroline (Choreographer)
Selby, Charles (Author)
Serle, Thomas J. (Author)
Sewrin, Charles-Augustin (Author)
Shakespeare, William (Author)
Sheridan, Richard B. (Author)
Shield, William (Composer)
Shillibeer (Composer)
Shirley, Arthur (Author)
Simonnin, Antoine-Jean-Baptiste (Author)
Simpson, John P. (Author)
Sims, George R. (Author)
Slaughter, Walter (Composer)
Slous, Angelo R. (Author)
Smith, Albert R. (Adapter)
Smith, Albert R. (Author)
Smith, Christopher J. (Choreographer)
Smith, John F. (Author)
Smith, S. Theyre (Author)
Smith, William (Author)
Smith, William (Choreographer)
Soane, George (Author)
Somerset, Charles A. (Author)
Sorrell, William J. (Author)
Soutar, Robert (Author)
Sprake, Henry (Composer)
Stange, Stanislaus (Author)
Stansbury, George F. (Composer)
Stephenson, Benjamin C. (Author)
Stirling, Edward (Author)
Sudermann, Herman (Author)
Sullivan, Arthur S. (Composer)
Suter, William E. (Author)

T

Talfourd, Francis (Author)
Taylor, Thomas P. (Author)
Taylor, Tom (Author)
Terry, Daniel (Author)
Theaulon, Marie E. (Author)
Thirlwall, John W. (Arranger)
Thirlwall, John W. (Composer)
Thomas, Brandon (Author)
Thomas, C. Ambroise (Composer)
Thompson, C. Pelham (Author)
Thompson, C. T. (Author)
Tobin, John (Author)
Tristram, W. Outram (Author)
Troughton, Adolphus C. (Author)
Tully, James H. (Composer)

U

Unknown (Adapter)
Unknown (Author)
Unknown (Choreographer)
Unknown (Translator)
Unlisted (Author)

V

Vane, Sutton, Sr. (Author)
Venafra, Signor (Author)
Venafra, Signor (Choreographer)
Vezin, Hermann (Author)
Von Mueller (Composer)
Von Winter, Peter (Composer)

W

Wade, Joseph A. (Composer)
Wagner, Herr W. Richard (Composer)
Walbourn, William H. (Choreographer)
Wallace, W. Vincent (Composer)
Wallworth, T. A. (Composer)
Warner, Charles (Author)
Watson (Composer)
Watson, T. Malcolm (Author)
Webster, Benjamin, Jr. (Author)
Webster, Benjamin N. (Author)
Webster, Benjamin N. (Translator)
Webster, N. S. (Author)
Welsh, Thomas (Composer)
Westmacott, Charles M. (Author)
Wigan, Alfred S. (Author)
Wigan, Horace (Author)
Wilks, Thomas E. (Author)
Williams, Arthur (Author)
Williams, Mrs. Barney (Author)
Williams, Montagu (Author)
Williams, Thomas J. (Author)
Williams, William H. (Author)
Willman (Composer)
Wills, William G. (Author)
Winslow, E. (Composer)
Woodworth, Samuel (Author)
Worrell, Mrs. (Choreographer)
Wyndham, Miss (Author)

Y

Yates, Edmund (Author)
Yates, Frederick H. (Author)
Yates, Mrs. Frederick H. (Author)

Z

Zangwill, Israel (Author)

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