A Modern Volpone: Stephen Moorer, for the Pacific Repertory Theatre, at the Golden Bough Playhouse, Carmel, CA., 2000.

The play premiered at the Globe Theatre in Spring 1606, performed by the King's Men, possibly with John Lowin in the title role and Alexander Cooke as Lady Would-be. They performed the play at Oxford and Cambridge and it remained in their repertory, performed in 1624 for Charles, Prince of Wales, again in 1630 and 1637. After the Restoration, John Genest records over fifty performances by 1770. Owned by the King's Men of Thomas Killigrew, the play premiered at Drury Lane in 1663 with Michael Mohun as Volpone to Hart's Mosca; Katherine Corey played Celia, and Rebecca Marshal played Lady Would-be (all seen by Samuel Pepys in 1665). The play survived in the 18th century. Richard Steele mentions a performance in a 1709 Tatler. 18th c. Volpones include James Quin; Moscas include Charles Macklin. Colley Cibber played Corvino; his wife Katherine Shore played Celia, as did Elizabeth Inchbald later. Like many Jacobean plays, it fell from favor by 1800, unlike those of Shakespeare. The play was revived by the Phoenix Society at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1921; W. B. Yeats was among the audience. The Birmingham Repertory Theatre staged the play at the Malvern Festival in 1935. Thereafter it was regularly performed with success. Courtesy of the Yorck Project, under GNU Free Document License.