. . "Box and Cox is a one act farce by John Maddison Morton. It is based on a French one-act vaudeville, Frisette, which had been produced in Paris in 1846.Box and Cox was first produced at the Lyceum Theatre, London, on 1 November 1847, billed as a \"romance of real life.\" The play became popular and was revived frequently through the end of the nineteenth century, with occasional productions in the twentieth century."@en . . .