The Wife: A Tale of Mantua (also known as The Wife of Mantua is an 1833 historical play by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 24 April 1833. The cast included Sheridan Knowles as Julian St. Pierre, Ellen Kean as Mariana, Charles Kean as Leonardo, James Prescott Warde as Ferrardo, George Bennett as Antonio, William Abbot as Lorenzo, Edwin Ransford as Hugo, Drinkwater Meadows as Bartolo and William Payne as Pietro. The epilogue was written by Charles Lamb. It is set in Mantua during the reign of the House of Gonzaga. References Bibliography Meeks, Leslie Howard. Sheridan Knowles: And the Theatre of His Time. Principia Press, Incorporated, 1933. Marshall, Gail. Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 2012. Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of Early Nineteenth Century Drama 1800-1850. Cambridge University Press, 1930. 1833 plays West End plays Irish plays British plays Plays by James Sheridan Knowles Plays set in Italy