With all these variations performed, it became inevitable that Shakespeare's original plays would not be performed for several decades. This situation, however, was changed by Madame Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (1797–1856). Madame Vestris was not only an actress and opera singer, but also worked as a theater manager. Starting in 1816, Vestris together with James Robinson Planche, attempted to restore A Midsummer Night's Dream and successfully staged it at the Covent Garden Theater in 1840 (2011: p. 89). While Planche is praised for arranging splendid costumes, restoring Shakespeare's verses and creating splendid scenes with flying fairies, Vestris herself performed magnificently as "Oberon, king of the fairies: Madame Vestris, renowned for her beautiful legs and for showing them in the trouser roles, he was responsible for that innovation” (Murphy, 2013: p. 148). Vestris also used Mendelssohn's “overture, wedding march, and other music” (1975: p. 118). Unlike previous adaptations, this great revival of Shakespeare used musical effects not to suppress or replace the poet's original lines, but to emphasize them and at the same time to create powerful and dramatic settings J. R. Planche in Recollections and Reflections wrote that this performance was "most successful and verified Bartley's prediction" (Planche, 1872: p.