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A Script in Hand reading. An historical tragedy in five acts by Mary Russell Mitford first performed at the Royal Victoria Theatre on 2 July 1834 Written at a moment of political unrest and unpopular monarchy, Mitford’s dramatisation of the imprisonment and trial of Charles I was quickly suppressed by authorities who felt that ‘it amounted to everything but cutting off the King’s head upon the stage’. Only nine years later was it finally performed - and even then at a theatre outside the Lord Chamberlain’s jurisdiction.