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John Maddison Morton (3 January 1811 – 19 December 1891) was an English playwright who specialised in one-act farces. His most famous farce was Box and Cox (1847). He also wrote comic dramas, pantomimes and other theatrical pieces.

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John Maddison Morton

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John Maddison Morton (3 January 1811 – 19 December 1891) was an English playwright who specialised in one-act farces. His most famous farce was Box and...

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Maddison

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1964), Australian woman convicted of murder John Maddison Morton (1811–1891), English playwright Maddison Pearman (born 1996), Canadian Olympic Speed...

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John Morton

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on BBC John D Morton (born 1953), American musician and visual artist John Maddison Morton (1811–1891), English playwright J. B. Morton (1893–1979), British...

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David Oakes

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company, Dog Ate Cake, in 2009 Oakes directed a small tour revival of John Maddison Morton's Box and Cox. Oakes frequently directs at Shakespeare's Globe extending...

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All That Glitters

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All That Glitters is Not Gold, an 1851 comic drama by Thomas Morton and John Maddison Morton All That Glitters (1936 film), a British film directed by Maclean...

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Lindsay Anderson

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Logue, 1960) Diary of a Madman (Gogol adaptation, 1963) Box and Cox (John Maddison Morton, 1961) The Fire Raisers (Max Frisch, 1961) Julius Caesar (William...

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List of playwrights

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1942, Australia) John Mortimer (1923–2009, England) John Maddison Morton (1811–1891, England) Thomas Morton (1764–1838, England) Tom Morton-Smith (born 1980...

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Box and Cox

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Box and Cox may refer to: Box and Cox (farce), a comic play by John Maddison Morton first produced in 1847 Box and Cox Publications, a London music publisher...

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Chertsey

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story "Blanche Heriot: A Legend of Old Chertsey Church" (1843). John Maddison Morton was living in Chertsey when he wrote Box and Cox (1847), which The...

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Cox and Box

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music by Arthur Sullivan, based on the 1847 farce Box and Cox by John Maddison Morton. It was Sullivan's first successful comic opera. The story concerns...

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Dayananda Gunawardena

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is an adaptation of the play Box and Cox by English playwright John Maddison Morton. It was first staged without songs. Gunawardena produced sixteen...

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John Pyke Hullah

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with John Hullah: hitherto unpublished from the collection of the Count de Suzannet (Walter Dexter, London 1933). J. Hullah & John Maddison Morton, The...

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Kensal Green Cemetery

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ruler Kate Meyrick (1875–1933), night club owner John Maddison Morton (1811–1891), playwright John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877), American historian Billy...

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John Baldwin Buckstone

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where he was Box at the first representation of Box and Cox, by John Maddison Morton, in 1847. There he also created the role of Bob, in Dion Boucicault's...

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Henry Leigh Murray

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Ernest Legouvé), Stephen Plum in All that glitters is not Gold (John Maddison Morton), and others. Attribution  This article incorporates text from a...

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Marion Terry

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West End appearance came in October 1873 as Isabelle in a farce by John Maddison Morton, A Game of Romps at the Olympic Theatre, in the company of Henry...

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How He Lied to Her Husband

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(1937) at the Internet Movie Database The other two were Box & Cox by John Maddison Morton and John John, Sir John and Tib by John Heywood. Stiller, p. 163...

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1847 in literature

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politically sensitive last scene rewritten by a censor. November 1 – John Maddison Morton's one-act farce Box and Cox (adapted from the French) opens at the...

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Nellie Farren

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pieces, including The Hidden Hand by Tom Taylor; My Wife's Bonnet by John Maddison Morton; the burlesques Prince Camaralzaman, or, the Fairies' Revenge and...

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Olympic Theatre

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staged in 1851, Planché began writing for the Olympic again, and John Maddison Morton also wrote many plays for the house. Other playwrights featured at...

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