# The Fatal Legacy

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{{Short description|1723 play by Jane Robe}}
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{{Infobox play
| name              =The Fatal Legacy
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| writer            =Jane Robe
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| date of premiere  = 23 April 1723<ref>Burling p.101</ref>
| original language = English
| place             = [Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre](/source/Lincoln's_Inn_Fields_Theatre)
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| genre             = Tragedy
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'''''The Fatal Legacy''''' is a 1723 [tragedy](/source/tragedy) by the British writer Jane Robe.<ref>Nicoll p.351</ref> It was inspired by [Jean Racine](/source/Jean_Racine)'s 1664 play ''[La Thébaïde](/source/La_Th%C3%A9ba%C3%AFde)''.<ref>Burling p.102</ref><ref>Staves p.208</ref> It concerns the children of [Oedipus](/source/Oedipus) in [Ancient Thebes](/source/Thebes%2C_Greece).

The original Lincoln's Inn Fields cast included [Anthony Boheme](/source/Anthony_Boheme) as Eteocles, [Lacy Ryan](/source/Lacy_Ryan) as Polynices, [James Quin](/source/James_Quin) as Creon, [Thomas Walker](/source/Thomas_Walker_(actor)) as Phocias, [Thomas Smith](/source/Thomas_Smith_(actor)) as Alcander, [John Egleton](/source/John_Egleton) as Attalus, [Anna Maria Seymour](/source/Anna_Maria_Seymour) as Jocasta and [Jane Rogers](/source/Jane_Rogers_(actress%2C_died_1739)) as Antigona. The [prologue](/source/prologue) was written by [Charles Beckingham](/source/Charles_Beckingham).

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Burling, William J. ''A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737''. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992.
* Nicoll, Allardyce. ''A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama: 1700-1750''. CUP Archive, 1927.
* Staves, Susan. ''A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789''. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Category:1723 plays
Category:British tragedy plays
Category:West End plays
Category:Plays based on Oedipus Rex
Category:Plays set in ancient Greece
Category:Adaptations of works by Jean Racine

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