Scenes from the rejected comedies
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Type of record: Book
Title: Scenes from the rejected comedies
Classmark: Pamphlets BC Gen/SMI
Creator(s): À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott (1811-1856)
Publisher: Published at the Punch Office
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1844
Language: English
Size and medium: 46, [1] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/290062
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002780599705181
Description
Parodies by Gilbert À Beckett of scenes from plays by James Sheridan Knowles and nine other playwrights of the day. À Beckett included himself, in a scene from "The school for sentiment", pp.[33]-38.
Contents: Scene from The husband/ by J---s S---n K---s - Humbugs of the hour/ by D---s J---d - Scene from The Templars : a rejected comedy/ by Serjt. T---d - The absurdities of a day/ by J.R. P---e - Jane Jenkins, or, The ghost of the back drawing room/ by E. F---zb-- -ll - Floreat Etona/ by D.L. B---t - A story of London/ by Le-- -h H---t - The school for sentiment, or, The tar! the tear!! and the tilbury/ by G---t A---t a'B---t - Grandmother Browning/ by M---k L-- -n - Scene from Credit/ by Sir E.L.B.L.E.D. B---r.
Additional description
Bound with 5 other publications in a wrapper labelled: Old short comedies by writers for Punch and a collection of words of old songs. Volume contents: 1. Mr. Albert Smith's Mont Blanc ... [etc.], [1858?]. -- 2. Smith, A.: Speech delivered by Mr. Albert Smith on the close of Mont Blanc ... [etc] (placed loose in volume), 1858. -- 3. The lover's harmony, 1838. -- 4. À Beckett, G: Scenes from the rejected comedies ... [etc.], 1844. -- 5. Smith, A.: Aladdin and the wonderful lamp, 1844. -- 6. Vyse, B: William Shakespeare behind the scenes ... [etc.], 1864
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