Event Comment: 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
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Roman Bride's Revenge