02878cam a22003733u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000320011324500630014526400510020830000470025933600260030633700260033233800360035849000490039450000510044350000310049450801660052552014840069153400570217565300150223265300340224765300400228183000490232185600720237085600430244299900190248576960UtSlPG20260610134800.0mcr n260607r20251856utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPR1 aBrough, William,d1826-187014aThe corsair; or, the little fairy at the bottom of the sea 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aThe minor drama. The acting edition no. 131.  aPublished also under title: Conrad and Medora.  aRelease date is 2025-09-30  aMairi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"The corsair; or, the little fairy at the bottom of the sea :  A new Christmas…" by William Brough is a comic burlesque pantomime from the mid-19th-century Victorian era. Built on the popular ballet Le Corsaire and winking at Byron’s pirate romance, it mixes fairy spectacle, slapstick, and melodrama. Its likely topic is a swashbuckling pirate story turned into a playful Christmas entertainment in which love and magic try to reform a notorious corsair.  The plot follows Conrad, a moody pirate, whose fate becomes the business of sea-fairies led by Serena, who vows to redeem him through love. On shore he rescues the vivacious Medora from a slave market, then survives a fairy-made shipwreck, only to be betrayed by his lieutenant Birbanto, who helps the renegade Yussuf abduct Medora. Serena thwarts a mutiny, and Conrad infiltrates the Pasha’s harem in disguise, duels Birbanto, and is captured. To save him, Medora pretends to accept the Pasha’s proposal, while Gulnare cunningly marries the Pasha herself under a veil. Medora frees Conrad and they escape; the Pasha discovers he is wed to Gulnare; in the woods Birbanto’s coup collapses as guards arrive and Serena grants mercy to the reformed lovers. A general reconciliation follows: the pirate vows domestic respectability, Gulnare secures her marriage, even the villains promise reform, and the piece ends in a sparkling Peri-led transformation to harlequinade. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Samuel French, 1856  aBurlesques  aEnglish drama -- 19th century  aPantomime (Christmas entertainment) 0aThe minor drama. The acting edition no. 131.4 uhttps://archive.org/details/corsairorlittlef00brou/page/n3/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76960  c117685d117685