November 1696
Event Information
Theatre:
Drury Lane Theatre
Theatrical Season:
1696-1697
Volume:
1
Comments:
Rich's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Man, 22-24 Dec. 1696, suggests that it was probably first given not later than November 1696. A song, If Celia you had youth and all, the music possibly composed by Leveridge, was published in A New Book of Songs by Mr Leveridge (advertised in the London Gazette, No. 3293, 3 June 1697). Gildon, English Dramatick Poets, p. 176: This Play was our Author's first; and as it was writ in a Month,...so it had the Fate of those untimely Births, as hasty a Death....If the Voice of the Town had not been influenc'd by the Ill Representation, it must have met with a less rigorous Censure. A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702): Damn'd
Performance List
Mainpiece
Title:
The Roman Bride's Revenge
Comments:
Edition of 1697: Prologue-; Epilogue-Misse Allison.
Edition of 1697: Prologue-; Epilogue-Misse Allison.