Afternoon Drama | Shakespeare’s Vortigern and Rowena

Vortigern and Rowena

In 1796, at Drury Lane Theatre in London, Richard Sheridan put on a guaranteed hit, a production of a recently discovered lost play of Shakespeare's.

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