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100 1 _aBrough, William,
_d1826-1870
245 1 4 _aThe corsair; or, the little fairy at the bottom of the sea
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aThe minor drama. The acting edition no. 131.
500 _aPublished also under title: Conrad and Medora.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-30
508 _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)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Samuel French, 1856
653 _aBurlesques
653 _aEnglish drama -- 19th century
653 _aPantomime (Christmas entertainment)
830 0 _aThe minor drama. The acting edition no. 131.
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/corsairorlittlef00brou/page/n3/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76960
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