Fatal Love (play)

Fatal Love
Written by	Elkanah Settle
Date premiered	September 1680
Place premiered	Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Original language	English
Genre	Tragedy

Fatal Love; Or, The Forc'd Inconstancy is a 1680 tragedy by the English writer Elkanah Settle. ^[1] It was first staged by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. The original cast members are unknown. ^[2] Producer at the time of the Popish Plot scare and the Exclusion Crisis, it was notably anti-Catholic similar to Settle's other tragedy of the same year The Female Prelate . ^[3]

References

1. Brown p.21
2. Van Lennep p.291
3. Brown p.21

Bibliography

• Brown, Frank Clyde. Elkanah Settle. University of Chicago Press, 1910.
• Van Lennep, W. The London Stage, 1660-1800: Volume One, 1660-1700. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960.