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
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies The British Society for Eighteenth-century Studies (BSECS) is an interdisciplinary scholarly society based in the United Kingdom which promotes the study of all aspects of 18th-century cultural history. Its members are both academics and members of the public from all over the world with a diverse range of interests in the history, art history, architecture, literature and culture of the 18th century. The society organizes an annual conference, held at St Hugh's College, Oxford each January and publishes the quarterly Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. It also offers a range of fellowships and bursaries to support