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
The Maiden Queen "Ibrahim, ou l'Illustre Bassa" (for the subplot). (Dryden returned to Scudéry's "Ibrahim" for inspiration for another play, "An Evening's Love", the following year, 1668 — though that venture proved much less successful.) Dryden also borrowed material from Shirley's "Love in a Maze". By Dryden's own testimony, the unheroic Philocles was inspired by Magnus de la Garide, the royal favorite of Queen Christina of Sweden. The drama was revived in an adapted form in 1707; Colley Cibber mixed it with materials from "Marriage à la mode". The play remained in the repertory throughout the eighteenth century in various forms; a shortened