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Title Roses and Thornes; or, Two Houses under One Roof
Author Lunn, Joseph  
Date 31 Mar 1823
Licence Application Date 31 Mar 1823
First Performance Date 24 Aug 1825
Document Type Play  
Library/Archive The Huntington Library  
Collection Name John Larpent Plays
Reference LA2347
Language English
Document Description A comedy featuring a Frenchman, a woman named Julia and her disinclination to a proposed marriage.
Theme Courtship, Family & Domestic Life  
Theatre Covent Garden Theatre  The Little Theatre (or Theatre Royal), Haymarket  
Theatre Manager Fawcett, John  
Lord Chamberlain Graham, James (3rd Duke of Montrose)  
Examiner at time of Licence Application Larpent, John  
Genre Comedy  
Acts Five  
Geographical Setting Somerset  
Printed Edition Printed 1826.
Keywords comedy  alcohol  French  mistress  family  marriage  love  courtship  
Additional Information Manuscript dated Covent Garden, Apr. 1, 1823. Compared to the 1826 edition, there are numerous and extensive differences, incidental to reduction of play as printed, to three acts.
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