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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
This is quite possibly a wrongly cited version of ''[[Drawing Room, Second Floor and Attics]]'' a farce in one act by J.M. Morton.  
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This is quite possibly a wrongly cited version of ''[[Drawing Room, Second Floor and Attics]]'' a farce in one act by J.M. Morton, first performed at the Royal Princess’s Theatre, London, on the 28th of March, 1864 and published by [[Thomas Hailes Lacy]] in the same year.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 05:25, 23 September 2019

The Drawing-Room Floor is a play by an unnamed author.


The original text

This is quite possibly a wrongly cited version of Drawing Room, Second Floor and Attics a farce in one act by J.M. Morton, first performed at the Royal Princess’s Theatre, London, on the 28th of March, 1864 and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1878: Performed as The Drawing-Room Floor by the Miss Egerton and Mr Case in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, on 8 August.

Sources

Michael R. Booth. 1980. Prefaces to English Nineteenth-century Theatre. Manchester University Press: pp. 139-140[].

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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