Ball Bibliography

— The Corvey Poets Project at the University of Nebraska —

British Poetry of the later Eighteenth and Earlier Nineteenth Centuries

Bibliographical and Contextual Apparatus

Ball, Edward [Fitzball, Edward].

The Revenge of Taran. London: Whittaker, 1822.

Bibliographical Information

PLAYS:
Waverley, or Sixty Years Since (Scottish drama), G. H. Rodwell, 1824;
The Songs of the Birds (musical drama), Rodwell, 1826;
The Flying Dutchman, or The Phantom Ship (nautical drama), Rodwell, 1827;
The Bottle Imp (melodrama, with R. B. Peake), Rodwell, 1828;
The Earthquake, or The Spectre of the Nile (burletta operatic spectacle), Rodwell, 1828;
The Devil's Elixir, or The Shadowless Man (musical romance), Rodwell, 1829;
The Night before the Wedding and the Wedding Night (operatic farce), H. R. Bishop, 1829;
Ninetta, or The Maid of Palaiseau, Bishop, 1830;
Under the Oak, or The London Shepherdess (vaudeville), Bishop, 1830;
Adelaide, or The Royal William (national and nautical musical burletta), Bishop, 1830;
The Black Vulture, or The Wheel of Death (musical drama), Rodwell, 1830;
The Sorceress, Ries, 1831;
The Demon, or The Mystic Branch (with J. B. Buckstone), Bishop, 1832;
Der Alchymist (with T. H. Bayly), Bishop, 1832;
The Magic Fan, or The Fillip on the Nose (vaudeville), Bishop, 1832;
The Bottle of Champagne (vaudeville), Bishop, 1832;
The Sedan Chair (operetta), Bishop, 1832;
The Maid of Cashmere (ballet op), Bishop, 1833;
The Soldier's Widow, or The Ruins of the Mill (musical drama), J. Barnett, 1833;
Jonathan Bradford or The Murder at the Roadside Inn! (drama), J. Jolly, 1833;
The Lord of the Isles, or The Gathering of the Clans, Rodwell, 1834;
Paul Clifford (musical drama), Rodwell and J. Blewitt, 1835;
The Siege of Rochelle (original op), M. W. Balfe, 1835;
The Bronze Horse, or The Spell of the Cloud King (operatic drama), Rodwell, 1835;
Quasimodo, or The Gipsy Girl of Notre Dame (drama), Rodwell, 1836;
The Rose of the Alhambra, or The Enchanted Lute, J. de Pinna, 1836;
The Sexton of Cologne, or The Burgomaster's Daughter (operatic romance), Rodwell, 1836;
Thalaba the Destroyer, or The Burning Sword (melodrama), Rodwell, 1836;
Joan of Arc (grand op), Balfe, 1837;
Diadeste, or The Veiled Lady (opera buffa), Balfe, 1838;
The Maid of Palaiseau, Bishop, 1838;
The King of the Mist, or The Miller of the Hartz Mountains (melodrama), G. F. Stansbury, 1839;
Keolanthe, or The Unearthly Bride, Balfe, 1841;
The Queen of the Thames, or The Anglers, or Uncle Brayling (operetta), J. L. Hatton, 1842;
Pasqual Bruno (comic op), Hatton, 1844;
Maritana (grand op), V. Wallace, 1845;
The Desert, or The Imann's Daughter (spectacular op), J. H. Tully, 1847;
The Forest Maiden and the Moorish Page (musical drama), Tully, 1847;
The Maid of Honour, Balfe, 1847;
Quentin Durward, H. R. Laurent, 1848;
The Cadi's Daughter (operetta), E. J. Nelson, 1851;
Berta, or The Gnome of the Hartzberg, H. T. Smart, 1855;
Raymond and Agnes (romantic op), Loder, 1855;
Auld Robin Gray (burletta), A. Lee, 1858;
Lurline (grand romantic op),
Wallace, 1860;
She Stoops to Conquer, G. A. Macfarren, 1864; The Magic Pearl, T. Pede, 1873:

Author's Note: Other lists of Fitzball's writing exist. This one is the most readily available list of his plays.

List from The St. James Reference Guide to English Literature: The Romantic and Victorian Periods.
FICTION:
The Idiot Boy. 1815.
The Black Robber. 1819.
The Sibyl's Warning. 1822.
Michael Schwartz; or, The Two Runaway Apprentices. 1858.
VERSE:
Serena of Oakwood; or, Trials of the Heart, and Other Poems. 1815.
The Revenge of Taran. 1821 (conflicts with date of the Corvey Collection edition).
The House to Let, with Other Poems. 1857.
Bhanavar; The Story of Fadleen. 1858.
The Wee Craft. 1866.
My Pretty Jane. 1891.
OTHER:
Thirty-Five Years of a Dramatic Author's Life (autobiography). 2 vols., 1859.

Author's Note: No publishers given with titles in this list.

Sources:

Ashley, Leonard R.N. St. James Guide to English Literature: The Romantic and Victorian Periods, excluding the novel. Chicago and London: St. James Press, 1985. 57 - 62.
Booth, Michael R. "Fitzball , Edward (1793-1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. http://www.oxforddnb.com.library.unl.edu:80/view/article/9539.
Ditchfield, G. M. 'Lofft, Capel (1751-1824)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16930.
Kaloustian, David. 'Bloomfield, Robert (1766-1823)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2676
Sadie, Stanley, ed. "Edward Fitzball." New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1992.
Watson, George. (Eds.) The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 3 1800 - 1900. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE at the University Press, 1969. 1125.