 After a fearful dry spell of successful work, Planché finally achieved success with the production of "The Vampire, or The Bride of the Isles", performed at the Lyceum Theatre in August 1820.Following Lord Byron’s novel, "Fragment of a Novel", was John Polidori’s tale "The Vampyre" in 1819, soon to be adapted again, only this time as an adaption for the stage by Charles Nodier in his play "Le Vampire", a French melodrama that was performed in Paris in June 1820 (Nunzia).J.R Planché’s "The Vampire" owes a great deal of its existence to the management of proprietor Samuel James Arnold.