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Not quite a [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] opera, as Gilbert was not involved, this is Sullivan's first major comic opera, working with lyricist F. C. Barnard, and its success led him to work on more comic operas.
[[Small Name, Big Ego]] F. C. Barnard was not actually a very good playwright, but he was a half-decent lyricist, and as most of the dialogue was taken more-or-less directly from its source, John Maddison Morton's play ''Box and Cox'', this is one of Sullivan's most successful collaborations outside of his work with Gilbert, and often performed alongside one of the shorter [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] works.
The plot, such as it is, involves two lower-class men, Cox and Box, one who works nights and one who works days, being rented the same room by their ex-military landlord, Bouncer. When one of them gets a day off, the secret comes out, they discover that both of them are fleeing the affections of a rather over-eager woman, and, after trying to convince the other to take her, the plot is resolved when Bouncer hands over a note revealing that she has married a Mr. Knox, and Cox and Box are "discovered" to be long-lost brothers, due to the complete lack of a mysterious birthmark - just like the missing brother!
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