Performance
The title page of the 1613 quarto states that the drama was performed at the Whitefriars Theatre — which indicates the Children of the Queen's Revels as the company that staged it. The date of first production is uncertain, and is generally assigned to the period c. 1610.
A Restoration adaptation of The Insatiate Countess, titled God's Revenge Aaginst the Abominable Sin of Adultery, was staged in 1679.
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