 Garrick replaced Siddons with a boy, responding to ill-informed complaints that a female Epicœne was ludicrous.The revamped casting did not save the production, and "Epicœne" vanished from the boards for over a century, a victim of the falling popularity of non-Shakespearean Renaissance dramas.In 1935, Richard Strauss's opera "Die schweigsame Frau", with a libretto by Stefan Zweig based on Jonson's play, premiered in Dresden.