The Double-Bedded Room
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The Double-Bedded Room is a play by J.M. Morton (1811-1891)[1]
A skit about two men who occupy the same room without being aware of each other's existence, having been tricked by their landlady Mrs Bouncer, the play is said to have been derived from E. F. Prieur and A. Letorzec's Une Chambre pour Deux (1839). The English play was in its turn re-translated into French by Charles Varin and Charles Lefèvre and called Une Chambre à Deux Lits (1846).
There are critics who see the play as a forerunner and source for Morton's most famous play, Box and Cox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddison_Morton
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The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205
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