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
Scottish literature in the eighteenth century John (or James) Baille's political farce "Patriotism" in 1763, and Andrew Eskine's cross-dressing love farce "She's Not Him, He's Not Her" in 1764. The British government granted the first licence to a Scottish theatre under the act in 1767 as part of the plans for the building of the New Town in Edinburgh. The new Theatre Royal opened in 1769. In Perth it was 1780 before theatre was properly produced. As late as 1784, the council of Dundee prevented a company from Edinburgh from entering the town. In the later eighteenth century, many plays were written for and performed by