Sayings and Doings, or The Rule of Contrary

Sayings and Doings, or The Rule of Contrary is a farce in one act by John Maddison Morton (1811-1891)[]

Often found simply as Sayings and Doings.

Possibly a dramatization by Morton of the story The Man of Many Friends by Theodore Edward Hook ()[], from volume two of his collection of stories entitled Sayings and Doings (1838). Morton took the title of the play from the collection of stories, but Hook admits Morton might have obtained the plot for his play directly from the French comedy Jour á Paris (), from which Hook himself had drawn the idea.

First performed in London at Covent Garden in 1839 and first published in the same year by Chapman and Hall.

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Theodore Edward Hook. 1838. Sayings and Doings Second Volume. London: Colburn.[1]