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to bed for a short nap. Cox then returns, having been given the day off by his employer. He has bought a mutton chop and, going to cook it on the gridiron, finds the fire already lit and the rasher of bacon on the gridiron. He removes it, puts his chop in its stead, and hurries into an adjoining room for a plate. The slamming of the door awakens Box, who, recollecting his bacon, leaps from the bed, and finds the chop where he had left the rasher. He angrily seizes the chop, flings it from the window, and leaves the room to fetch a plate. Cox re-enters, and, in lieu of his chop, discovers the rasher, which follows the chop out of the window. Box and Cox meet, each imagining the other to be an intruder, each pulling from his pocket the last week's receipt for rent, and each clamouring loudly for redress from the landlady. Mrs Bouncer is forced to explain the mystery, and she throws herself on the kindness of Box and Cox by promising either of them a handsome second floor back room, which she hurries off to prepare.
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arrives, which states that Penelope Anne is quite safe and is on the road to London to claim her lover. Escape is now hopeless, and Box and Cox are in despair. A vehicle arrives, a knock resounds at the door, and Box and Cox place their backs to the door. Penelope Anne goes away again, leaving another letter revealing that she has decided to marry Mr Knox, an admirer nearer her own age. Box and Cox are delighted, and their happiness is completed by the realisation that they are brothers, who have been long separated (Box: "Have you such a thing as a strawberry mark on your left arm?" Cox: "No!" Box: "Then it is he!"). They reject the second-floor back room and determine to reside permanently in the same room, and under the tenancy of the same landlady.
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one comes in from work as the other is going out, but neither has any idea that Mrs Bouncer is letting his room to the other. Cox, suspicious that Mrs Bouncer has been using his flat during the day, complains to her that his coal keeps disappearing and there is "a steady increase of evaporation among my candles, wood, sugar and lucifer matches." He also complains that his room is continually full of tobacco smoke. Mrs Bouncer gives various excuses – among others, that Box, who, she says, occupies the attic, is a persistent smoker, and that his smoke must come down the chimney. Cox departs for his work at the hat shop, and on the stairs passes Box who is returning from the night shift at the newspaper.
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Box has brought home with him a rasher of bacon, which he at once prepares to cook. He lights the fire, is indignant that his matches have been used and his candles burnt low; for, being at home only during the day, he suspects Mrs Bouncer of these depredations. Leaving his bacon to cook, he retires
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Mrs Bouncer, a London lodging-house keeper, is letting an apartment to a double tenantry – to Box, a printer on a daily newspaper, and to Cox, a journeyman hatter, the former occupying the room during the day, the latter during the night. They invariably meet on the stairs of the lodging-house when
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of Somewhere, with a palazzo in Venice, commonly known as "James Cox"; Mrs Penelope Anne Knox; and Major General Bouncer. Box and Cox have inherited titles from a Spanish and a Venetian relative respectively, and both now seek to marry the widowed and immensely rich Penelope Anne. Their quarrel is
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Frustrated, Box asks, "Hark ye, sir – can you fight?" Cox answers, "No, sir." Box: "No? Then come on!" Agreeing, however, that they have no quarrel with each other, and that the whole mess is Mrs Bouncer's fault, Box and Cox converse civilly. It emerges that Cox is about to be married to a widow,
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vulgarity of Buckstone, the printer, and both have ample room for the exhibition of their own peculiar conceits of method – those never-failing helps to mirth. Box and Cox, in short, are a pair of pleasant varlets, and promise to be long in the good graces of the public." The theatrical newspaper
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gave this plot summary: "Box and Cox have both retired from business, both having been left enough money to live on, and they have a wife and baby apiece. Cox's better half turns out to be the former sweetheart of Box, who, in imprudently making himself known to her, is discovered by the lady's
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The impasse is broken when a letter arrives from Margate stating that Penelope Anne has drowned in a boating accident, and has left her property to her intended husband. Box and Cox now argue their claims to the bathing machines, but finally they agree to split the fortune. Now a second letter
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later wrote, "Mr Morton's dialogue can only be properly given by Messrs. Buckstone and Compton, and in the mouths of any other actors it is, to those who have seen Messrs. Buckstone and Compton in the parts (and who has not?) a bore." In 1856 a performance was given by army personnel in the
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said, "The piece is neatly and smartly written, but it is not difficult to guess that it owes its salvation solely to the felicitous whimsicalities of the two actors upon whom it chiefly devolves. The grotesque gentility of Harley, the hatter, is drolly matched by the
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husband. There is, of course, immense indignation from Mr Cox and Mrs Box, and great fun arises out of the various demonstrations of these injured individuals. Everything, however, is arranged to the satisfaction of all parties."
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abruptly stopped when Penelope Anne introduces her new husband, General Bouncer (who is no relation to their former landlady). Burnand incorporated three musical numbers, writing new words to existing tunes by
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The piece became a popular favourite; from late 1847 it was widely staged throughout the United Kingdom, and it was frequently performed to raise funds for causes including a new drama college and the proposed
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as Mrs Bouncer; and again at the Haymarket Theatre in 1889, with H. Nicholls as Cox, E. M. Robson as Box, and Mrs E. Phelps as Mrs Bouncer. It was first performed in America at the Arch Street Theatre,
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and her family and court. Harley and Buckstone repeated their original roles, and "the Royal party laughed heartily". The Queen and Prince Albert saw the play again in 1850, at a revival at the
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In the nineteenth century, it was common practice for plays to be adapted from French originals for the London stage, with changes often made to conform to
178:, an unscrupulous landlady rents the same room to a young woman (Frisette, a lace-maker) by night, and to a young man (Gaudrion, a baker) by day. In 86:, which also became popular and continues to be performed regularly. Other musical adaptations were made, but have not remained in the repertory. 135:), which itself reputedly derived from earlier French, English and Spanish comedies. Morton is not known to have pronounced on the matter, but 95:
defines it as "applied allusively to an arrangement in which two persons take turns in sustaining a part, occupying a position, or the like."
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printed a mock examination paper on it for use in drama schools, with such questions as "What was Mrs Bouncer's ostensible employment? Would
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was 'taken from the Spanish', who, I dare say, have got on very well without it, or not, certainly it was not the original source of
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in 1866. The piece was Sullivan's first produced comic opera. It was played privately, then given a successful production by the
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The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Gilbert and Sullivan Operas: A Record of Productions, 1875–1961
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achieved further notice when Burnand adapted it as a comic opera libretto under the title of
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in the title roles. In the twentieth century, it was successfully revived at the
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playgoers' expectations. The main source of Morton's play was a French one-act
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said, "A more 'laughable farce' has not been produced for many a day."
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in 1869, followed by other revivals. It was later taken up by the
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became the first success of the Lyceum under the new management of
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The phrase "Box and Cox" has entered the English language: the
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called the play "the best farce of the nineteenth century".
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as Mrs. Bouncer, as part of an evening of 3 one-act plays.
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How we Managed our Private Theatricals. To which is added
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The play became so well known that the humorous magazine
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and the unknown composer of "Les Pompiers de Nanterre".
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Programme for 1849 Royal Command performance at Windsor
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Rollins and Witts, pp. 92–97 and 184–86; Moss, Simon.
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Murray's wife performed as Mrs Elizabeth Leigh Murray.
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Penelope Anne Wiggins, a prosperous proprietress of
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Oxford: Oxford University Press. 520:led to the production of a sequel, 333:Poster for 1877 American production 284:as Box and Cox, caricatured in 1883 249:The audience was enthusiastic, and 50:. It is based on a French one-act 13: 1002:, Allmusic, accessed 5 August 2014 663: 14: 1258: 1190: 1011:"The German Reed Entertainment", 679: 228:Reviewing the first performance, 123:, which had been produced at the 1221:Details of first productions of 729:(2009), accessed 11 August 2010. 163:by Labiche and Lefranc entitled 1018: 1005: 976: 967: 958: 945: 932: 900: 891: 878: 862: 849: 836: 823: 806: 793: 780: 643: 522:Box and Cox Married and Settled 147:, discounted the importance of 816:, 13 January 1849, p. 21; and 767: 758: 745: 732: 712: 699: 636:Some sources name the play as 630: 465: 1: 1048:. London: Chatto and Windus. 855:"Theatricals in the Crimea", 656: 619:Notes, references and sources 430:in 1924, the cast comprising 376:as Cox, were so popular that 182:, both the lodgers are male. 98: 1127:Madame Vestris and Her Times 1042:Adams, W. Davenport (1904). 672:"French and English Plays", 340:Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 7: 1124:Pearce, Charles E. (1900). 919:John John, Sir John and Tib 857:The Illustrated London News 814:The Illustrated London News 801:The Illustrated London News 788:The Illustrated London News 204:was first performed at the 10: 1263: 1147:. London: Michael Joseph. 1035: 1028:, 26 September 1885, p. 15 990:, accessed 5 August 2014; 909:How He Lied to Her Husband 773:"Provincial Theatricals", 705:Burnand, F. C., letter to 676:, 22 November 1874, p. 14. 589:D'Oyly Carte Opera Company 64:was first produced at the 15: 1084:Gaye, Freda, ed. (1967). 1071:. New York: Happy Hours. 1045:A Dictionary of the Drama 942:, 7 February 1880, p. 51. 833:, 17 February 1850, p. 11 723:, un Labiche qui dĂ©frise" 597:German Reed Entertainment 524:, a farce in one act, by 481:depicted as Box and Cox, 438:directed the work at the 407:Prince of Wales's Theatre 385:, with an officer of the 92:Oxford English Dictionary 72:in 1866 by the dramatist 1130:. London: Stanley Paul. 1086:Who's Who in the Theatre 875:, 22 December 1891, p. 2 786:"The Theatres, &c", 623: 422:, with W. E. Burton and 16:Not to be confused with 1101:Jacobs, Arthur (1984). 1061:Burnand, F. C. 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Index

Cox and Box

John Maddison Morton
farce
John Maddison Morton
vaudeville
Lyceum Theatre
comic opera
F. C. Burnand
Arthur Sullivan
Cox and Box
Oxford English Dictionary
Victorian
vaudeville
Eugène Marin Labiche
Auguste Lefranc
Théâtre du Palais-Royal
F. C. Burnand
operetta

J. B. Buckstone
Lyceum Theatre
John Pritt Harley
John Baldwin Buckstone
The Standard
cockney
The Era
Lucia Elizabeth Vestris
Charles Matthews

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