Though sneered at by theorists and subject to endless abuse in the prologues and epilogues of the day, farce continued as pleasing to Restoration audiences as it is today. James Sutherland notes that shrewd actor-playwrights such as Mountfort, Betterton, Underhill, Jevon, Dogget, Powell--men who knew intimately the tastes of the town, chose to write farce.[7] Tate's _A Duke and No Duke_, Aphra Behn's _The Emperor of the Moon_, and Jevon's _The Devil of a Wife_, were among the most popular offerings, and although the Restoration wit may have gone to "Dr. Faustus" with a certain sense of intellectual slumming, he did continue to support quite generously the _farceurs_ of that time. Moreover, farcical elements appear regularly in the supposedly elegant and artificial Restoration comedy of manners. "Dr. Faustus" is a highly competent putting-together of those components which the experienced actor-playwright knew to be surefire. The date of its premier production is not known and has been assigned to a date as early as 1684 and as late as 1688. The farce was not published until the quarto of 1697, which appeared without cast-list, prologue, or epilogue.[8] The title page, however, states that the farce was acted at Dorset Garden "several times," by "Lee" (Anthony Leigh) and Jevon, and, as the editor of _The London Stage_ points out, since Jevon died in December of 1688, the premiere was probably no later than the season of 1687-1688.[9] Borgman maintains that "Dr. Faustus" is Mountfort's second work, after _The Injured Lovers_ of February, 1688, noting that the epilogue to that play, spoken by Jevon, suggests that Mountfort was planning, or had written, a farce: _Pardon but this, and I will pawn my life, His next shall match my Devil of a Wife, We'll grace it with the Imbellishment of Song and Dance; We'll have the Monsieur once again from _France_, With's Hoop and Glasses, and when that is done, He shall divert you with his Riggadoon._ We might guess, then, that if the epilogue does refer to "Dr. Faustus," the date of that play is as late as the Spring of 1688.