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''[[Drawing Room, Second Floor and Attics]]'' is a farce in one act by J.M. Morton ()[].
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''[[Drawing Room, Second Floor and Attics]]'' is a farce in one act by J.M. Morton (1811–1891) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddison_Morton].  
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
First performed at the Royal Princess’s Theatre, London, the 28th of March, 1864.
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First performed at the Royal Princess’s Theatre, London, the 28th of March, 1864, and published by [[Thomas Hailes Lacy]] in the same year.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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1866: This play might have been the same work as that performed as ''[[The Drawing-Room Floor]]'' by the [[Miss Egerton]] and [[Mr Case]] in the [[Athenaeum Hall]], Cape Town, on 8 August.
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1878: This play was quite possibly the same work as that performed under the title '''''[[The Drawing-Room Floor]]''''' (Anon.)  by the [[Egerton and Case Company]] in the [[Athenaeum Hall]], Cape Town, on 8 August.
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/49665/49665-h/49665-h.htm
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Transcribed version of the original Lacy text, The [[Project Gutenberg]] EBook [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/49665/49665-h/49665-h.htm]
  
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.371
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.371

Latest revision as of 05:20, 19 October 2019

Drawing Room, Second Floor and Attics is a farce in one act by J.M. Morton (1811–1891) [1].

The original text

First performed at the Royal Princess’s Theatre, London, the 28th of March, 1864, and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1878: This play was quite possibly the same work as that performed under the title The Drawing-Room Floor (Anon.) by the Egerton and Case Company in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, on 8 August.

Sources

Transcribed version of the original Lacy text, The Project Gutenberg EBook [2]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.371

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