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The corsair; or, the little fairy at the bottom of the sea

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By William Brough
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A comic Christmas burlesque pantomime stages a fantastic maritime world of mermaids, sprites, tritons, and a brooding corsair whose depredations threaten sea life. The sea spirits debate punishment and dispatch a small fairy to reform him by love rather than wreckage; she descends to a bustling shore bazaar where comic misunderstandings, romantic entanglements, and eccentric officers play out. The action alternates satirical dialogue with dances, tableaux, and explicit stage business, blending parody of swashbuckling romance with theatrical spectacle, visual humor, and costume-driven pantomime conventions.

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Title: The corsair; or, the little fairy at the bottom of the sea

A new Christmas burlesque and pantomime, founded upon the ballet of "Le corsair"

Author: William Brough

Release date: September 30, 2025 [eBook #76960]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Samuel French, 1856

Credits: Mairi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CORSAIR; OR, THE LITTLE FAIRY AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA ***
THE MINOR DRAMA.
The Acting Edition.
No. CXXXI.

THE CORSAIR;

OR, THE
LITTLE FAIRY AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
A New Christmas Burlesque and Pantomime,
Founded upon the Ballet of “Le Corsaire.”
BY WILLIAM BROUGH, ESQ.,

Author of Perdita, or the Royal Milkmaid, Prince Prettypet and the Butterfly, Trying It On, Phenomenon in a Smock-frock, A Comical Countess, &c., &c.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

A description of the Costume—Cast of the Characters—Entrances and Exits—Relative Positions of the Performers on the Stage, and the whole of the Stage Business.

AS PERFORMED AT THE
PRINCIPAL ENGLISH AND AMERICAN THEATRES.
NEW YORK:
SAMUEL FRENCH,
122 Nassau Street; (Up Stairs.)
  Royal Lyceum, London, Dec. 26, 1856. Wallack’s Theatre 1857.
Conrad, the Corsair, (“a notable Pirate and salt water Thief,” gloomy, misanthropical, ironical and Byronical,) Mrs. A. Melion, LATE Miss Woolgar. Mrs. John Wood.
Birbanto, (his Lieutenant—an Officer, but not a Gentleman,) Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. John Wood.
Seyd (or Seedy) Pasha, (a terrible Turk,) Mr. Barrett. Mr. H. B. Phillips.
Syng Smaul, (a General Officer—Major-domo, Head Cook and Bottle-washer to the Pasha,) Mr. Holston. Mr. Holmes.
Yussuf, (in his own country Joseph—or familiarly, Old Joe—a renegade Slave Merchant,) Mr. S. Calharm. Mr. Peters.
Hassan, (a Boatswain,) Miss Goward.  
Medora, (a Grecian Maiden, Niece and Ward to Yussuf—a sacred pledge intrusted to her uncle,) Mrs. C. Dillon. Miss J. Manners.
Gulnare, (the reigning Beauty of the Pasha’s Harem, his favorite, and most other people’s, it is hoped—including the audience,) Mrs. B. White. Mrs. Vernon.
Zuliema, (a “light of other days” a little “faded,”) Mrs. C. Melville. Mrs. Cook.
Submarina, (the Fairy guardian of the Deep, Deep Sea, Chief Inspector of the Ocean Police, and Deputy Ruler of the Waves,) Miss J. Ryder. Mrs. H. B. Phillips.
Serena, (the Little Fairy at the bottom of the Sea,) Mrs. M. Wilton. Miss Emily Milton.
Corsairs, Slaves, Odalisques, Almas, Water Nymphs, Fairies, Guards, Attendants, &c.
THE CORSAIR.