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[[Roses and Thorns, or Two Houses under One Roof]] is a three act comedy by Joseph Lunn (1784-1863)[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Dictionary_of_National_Biography_volume_34.djvu/287]

==The original text==

Performed at the Haymarket Theatre in 1825 and published by John Cumberland 1828.

==Translations and adaptations==


== Performance history in South Africa ==

1850: It may possibly have been presented as a farce called ''[[The Party Wall]]'' (no author being named) by [[James Lycett]]'s Company of amateurs at the [[Drury Lane Theatre]], Cape Town, on 6 September, with ''[[William Tell]]'' (Knowles) and music from Rossini's opera of ''[[William Tell]]'', by the orchestra of the [[73rd Regiment]].

== Sources ==

[[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. 425.

Facsimile version of ''The Monthly magazine, or British Register'', Volume LX Part II 1825, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=l28EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&dq=The+Party+wall+theatrical+piece&source=bl&ots=8pqGS5r11F&sig=IaAQDvJurnsBGxxKPu3T7BgG0ws&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjSudXRxfPTAhUJIMAKHUHwBqsQ6AEIPzAJ#v=onepage&q=The%20Party%20wall%20theatrical%20piece&f=false]

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Dictionary_of_National_Biography_volume_34.djvu/287

Facsimile version of the text in ''Cumberland's British Theatre'' (Vol XII) 1828, Googler E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=LY80AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA3&lpg=RA3-PA3&dq=roses+and+thorns,+or+two+houses+under+one+roof&source=bl&ots=sj-f7kJr_E&sig=p6NM-bq8eoPqNXNW4QA0EBKEUL4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJkdrUyPPTAhVGLsAKHRGLDzsQ6AEINTAH#v=onepage&q=roses%20and%20thorns%2C%20or%20two%20houses%20under%20one%20roof&f=false]. 

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