Rochester was also interested in the theatre. In addition to an interest in actresses, he wrote an adaptation of Fletcher's "Valentinian" (1685), a scene for Sir Robert Howard's "The Conquest of China", a prologue to Elkanah Settle's "The Empress of Morocco" (1673), and epilogues to Sir Francis Fane's "Love in the Dark" (1675), Charles Davenant's "Circe, a Tragedy" (1677). The best-known dramatic work attributed to Rochester, "Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery", has never been successfully proven to be written by him. Posthumous printings of "Sodom", however, gave rise to prosecutions for obscenity, and were destroyed. On 16 December 2004 one of the few surviving copies of "Sodom" was sold by Sotheby's for £45,600.