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To reinforce the connection with Love's Last Shift and capitalize on its unexpected success, Vanbrugh designed the central roles of Loveless, Amanda, and Sir Novelty for the same actors: John Verbruggen, Jane Rogers, and Colley Cibber.

Keeping Rogers as Amanda was not a problem, since she was not an actress that the companies fought over, but holding on to John Verbruggen and Colley Cibber posed challenges, to which Rich rose with energetic campaigns of bribery and re-seduction.

Filling the rest of the large Relapse cast presented a varied palette of problems, which forced some unconventional emergency casting.