 This, together with unsubstantiated tales of more illnesses befalling other actresses during the run, gave the play an "unlucky" reputation, similar to that attached to "Macbeth", and this may have curtailed the number of subsequent revivals.Henry Woodward (1714–1777) popularised the part of Parolles in the era of David Garrick.Sporadic performances followed in the ensuing decades, with an operatic version at Covent Garden in 1832.