The corsair; or, the little fairy at the bottom of the sea : $b A new Christmas burlesque and pantomime, founded upon the ballet of "Le corsair"Brough, William
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The corsair; or, the little fairy at the bottom of the sea : $b A new Christmas burlesque and pantomime, founded upon the ballet of "Le corsair"
Brough, William
Burlesques; English drama -- 19th century; Pantomime (Christmas entertainment)
• title page: Added comma after “Phenomenon in a Smock-frock.”
• Cast of Characters: Expanded ditto marks from original for clarity.
• Cast of Characters: Changed “wtaer” to “water” in description of
Conrad.
• Cast of Characters: Changed “Pead Cock” to “Head Cook” in
description of Syng Smaul.
• Cast of Characters: Changed comma to period after “Mr. Holmes” in
entry for Syng Smaul.
• Cast of Characters: Changed comma to period after “Mrs. Cook” in
entry for Zuliema.
• Cast of Characters: Added comma after “Guards.”
• p. 4: Replaced “Iv’e” with “I’ve” in line “Smokers, I’ve heard, have
put their pipes out.”
• p. 5: Replaced “Serana” with “Serena” in stage direction “Serena is
seen darting up towards the earth as the scene closes.”
• p. 6: Replaced “its” with “it’s” in line “If so, just give your
orders and it’s done.”
• p. 7: Replaced “Yussuff” with “Yussuf” before line “Now then, you
tarnal critters” and in preceding stage direction.
• p. 7: Supplied missing period after character name “Pasha” before
line “Slave, who bid you interfere?”
• p. 8: Supplied missing period after character name “Medora” before
line “With pleasure, if it pleases you, I will.”
• p. 8: Replaced period with comma in line “So good, so true.”
• p. 8: Supplied missing question mark after line “What strange
presentiment of woe comes o’er me?”
• p. 9: Supplied leading space before line “Guards, hew him limb from
limb!”
• p. 9: Replaced “Yessuf” with “Yussuf” in character name before line
“Go at him--all at once.”
• p. 10: Supplied missing opening bracket before stage direction
“Exit, R., followed by the Girls.”
• p. 10: removed hyphen from “fly-too” in line “Nay, fly not yet, or
else let me fly too.”
• p. 11: Added small caps to “Medora” in stage direction “Throws scarf
over MEDORA’S head.”
• p. 11: Supplied leading space before line “Hush! don’t speak.”
• p. 13: Supplied leading space before line “Help! Conrad!” and expand
leading space in following line.
• p. 14: Moved stage direction “Throws money amongst them” from before
to after first line of speech.
• p. 15: Replaced comma with period after phrase “Aye, and pay rates
and taxes like a Briton.”
• p. 15: Supplied missing opening bracket before stage direction
“Serena sinks, R. C.”
• p. 16: Replaced “spectales” with “spectacles” in line “With
spectacles you might--you won’t without!”
• p. 18: Supplied missing opening bracket before stage direction “Runs
out, L.”
• p. 19: Replaced “Birbbanto” with “Birbanto” in stage direction
“Enter Birbanto, L.”
• p. 19: Replaced “qustion” with “question” in line “Well, if you ask
the question then--I have.”
• p. 19: Replaced “villian” with “villain” in line “Die, villain!”
• p. 20: Supplied leading space before line “And she consents? oh,
no.”
• p. 20: Supplied missing period after line “I don’t.”
• p. 21: Supplied leading space before lines “I will” and “And now
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