 The first edition also supplies an unusually full cast list, specifying the 17 King's Men's actors who took part in the original production.Charles Macklin revived the play at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1748, though the revival was not a success.Macklin was responsible for a story that Ford had stolen the play from Shakespeare's papers, which Edmond Malone rejected in his 1790 edition of Shakespeare's works.