Publisher's Synopsis
While probably neither Nahum Tate's Injur'd Love nor Lewis Theobald's The Fatal Secret merit study on their own account, both are significant indications of the survival of John Webster's plays in the first half of the eighteenth century. The texts shed light on the changes that were thought necessary to make the Jacobean dramatist fit for the contemporary theatre. Tate's fairly faithful version failed to achieve stage production, while Theobald's travesty rightly only attained two performances with a text that patently betrayed John Webster's dramatic intentions.
