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''[[The Spare Bed, or The Shower Bath]]'' is a farce in two acts by Frederick Fox Cooper (1806-1879 - also known as '''Fox Cooper''').

(Also referred to as ''[[The Spare Bed]]'')

== The original text ==
 
Performed at the  Surrey Theatre, 7 July 1833 and the Victoria Theatre,  8 July 1833 (?).
Published by  J. Cumberland in 1833. 

==Translations and adaptations==   


== Performance history in South Africa ==

1853: Performed as ''[[The Spare Bed]]'' in [[The Lyceum]] by the [[Port Elizabeth Dramatic Society]] on  22 October, with selections from ''[[Henry IV]]'' and ''[[A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion|An Unwarrantable Intrusion]]'' (Morton).

== Sources ==

A History of Early Ninteenth Century Drama 1800-1850, p. 273, CUP Archive/[[Google E-Book]][https://books.google.co.za/books?id=gnc3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA273&lpg=PA273&dq=The+Spare+Bed+Fox+Cooper&source=bl&ots=kckQLmAc9v&sig=wi9mCGjabd_j-cnaIwVk8-vtNto&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjm34TU6_bMAhWLJMAKHeJ4DboQ6AEINjAF#v=onepage&q=The%20Spare%20Bed%20Fox%20Cooper&f=false]

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL11421160W/The_spare_bed_or_The_shower_bath

Facsimile version of ''The Spare Bed, or The Shower Bath'', [[Google Books]][http://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Spare_Bed_Or_The_Shower_Bath.html?id=JBopngEACAAJ&redir_esc=y]

[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 508, 

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