 While such a heading was not unusual in the early eighteenth century, it is significant that it occurred for every performance that month.As the Ladies’ gained influence over Drury Lane their popularity and success began to be recognized in prologues to performances of new plays and new adaptations of Shakespeare's plays.For the premiere of "The Universal Passion", an adaptation of "Much Ado About Nothing" by James Miller, the prologue included an "ecstatic eulogy of the Shakespeare Ladies Club"