The earliest of the plays founded upon episodes in the Arcadia is Beaumont and Fletcher’s Cupid’s Revenge, which was acted by the children of the Queen’s Revels, and published in 1615.[302] A revision, possibly by another hand, has introduced considerable confusion into the titles of the personae, but need not otherwise concern us.[303] The plot of the play is based on two episodes in the romance, one relating to the vengeance exacted by Cupid on the princess Erona of Lycia for an insult offered to his worship, the other to the intrigue of prince Plangus of Iberia with the wife of a citizen, and the tragic complications arising therefrom.  These two stories are combined by the dramatists, with no very conspicuous skill, into one plot.  Plangus and Erona, under the names of Leucippus and Hidaspes, are represented as brother and sister, children of the old widowed duke of Lysia.  They make common cause in seeking to abolish the worship of Cupid, and their tragedies are represented as alike due to his offended deity.  No sooner has the old duke, yielding to his daughter’s prayers, prohibited the worship of the god, than Hidaspes falls desperately in love with the deformed dwarf Zoilus, and begs him in marriage of her father.  The duke, infuriated at such an exhibition of unnatural and disordered affection in his daughter, causes the dwarf to be beheaded, whereupon the princess languishes and dies.[304] In the meanwhile Leucippus has fallen in love with Bacha, the widow of a citizen, and frequents her house secretly, where being surprised by his father, he protests so strongly of her chastity—­hoping thereby to save her credit and his own—­that the old duke falls in love with her himself, and shortly afterwards marries her.  Having now become duchess she seeks to renew her intercourse with the prince, and being repulsed resolves upon revenge.  She makes the duke believe that his son is plotting against him, and so secures his arrest and condemnation, hoping thereby to obtain the crown for Urania, her daughter by a previous marriage.  The citizens, however, rise in revolt and rescue Leucippus, who thereupon goes into voluntary exile.  He is followed by Urania, a simple and innocent girl, who, knowing her mother’s designs upon his life, hopes to counteract her malice by attending on the prince in the disguise of a page.  The duchess in fact sends a man to murder the prince, the attempt being frustrated by Urania, who herself receives the blow and dies, the murderer being then slain by Leucippus.  In the meanwhile the duke dies, and the friends of the prince hasten to him, bringing with them the duchess as a prisoner.  She however, seeing her schemes doomed to failure, nurses revenge, and succeeds in stabbing Leucippus, then turning the dagger into her own heart.[305]