The chamber opera is scored for five singers and six instruments, including a piano, and it requires some basic stage props.
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Her short story, "A Jury of Her Peers", was adapted from the play a year after its debut.
The reading of Malherbe, it is said, first awoke poetical fancies in him, but for some time he attempted nothing but trifles in the fashion of the time - epigrams, ballades, rondeaux, etc.
German philologist Gottfried Bernhardy attempted to prove from Spartianus that this and other trifles of a similar description were composed by the contemporaries of the emperor Geta, the son of Septimius Severus and the brother of Caracalla.