Richard III (play) The earliest certain performance occurred on 1633, when Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria watched it on the Queen's birthday. Colley Cibber produced the most successful of the Restoration adaptations of Shakespeare with his version of "Richard III", at Drury Lane starting in 1700. Cibber himself played the role till 1739, and his version was on stage for the next century and a half. It contained the lines "Off with his head; so much for Buckingham" – possibly the most famous Shakespearean line that Shakespeare did not write – and "Richard's himself again!". The original Shakespearean version returned in a
Music of Scotland in the eighteenth century and David Herd's "Ancient and modern Scottish songs, heroic ballads, etc.: collected from memory, tradition and ancient authors" (1776). These were drawn on for the most influential collection, "The Scots Musical Museum" published in six volumes from 1787 to 1803 by James Johnson and Robert Burns, which also included new words by Burns. "A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs" collected by George Thomson and published between 1799 and 1818 included contributions from Burns and Walter Scott and contributed to the combining of Scottish traditional music with European classical forms. In the late eighteenth century, partly as a reaction to