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Box and Cox

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Box and Cox, a farce by J. M. Morton, adapted from two French vaudevilles, published 1847.

Box is a journeyman printer, Cox a journey-man hatter. Mrs Bouncer, a lodging-house keeper, has let the same room to both, taking advantage of the fact that Box is out all night and Cox out all day to conceal from each the existence of the other. Discovery comes when Cox unexpectedly gets a holiday. Indignation follows, and complications connected with a widow to whom both have proposed marriage; and finally a general reconciliation.

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Box and Cox

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Box and Cox used to refer to an arrangement whereby people or things make use of the same accommodation or facilities at different times, according to a strict arrangement. The expression comes from the title of a play (1847) by J. M. Morton, in which two characters, John Box and James Cox, unknowingly become tenants of the same room.

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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Box and Cox." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Box and Cox." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-BoxandCox.html

ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Box and Cox." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-BoxandCox.html

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Free newspaper and magazine articles

	THEY MUST'VE EATEN THEIR WHEATIES: COX TEAM WINS SPOT ON CHEERIOS BOX.(FRONT) Newspaper article from: The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA); 11/3/1998
	The Sorcerer/Cox and Box/The Sorcerer. Cox and Box Magazine article from: Modern Brewery Age; 7/1/2008
	BUSHELL ON THE BOX: Sara Cox.(Features) Newspaper article from: The People (London, England); 7/2/2006