In the prologue to Hannibal and Scipio, performed by the Queen Henrietta's Men at the Phoenix, Thomas Nabbes assures the ladies in his audience that they 'shall not blush, / Nor smile under their fannes' at the matter in his play. He explains that 'The places sometimes chang'd too for the Scene, / Which is translated as the music playes / Betwixt the acts[.]' He also reassures his audience that this production will not follow the low practice known to lesser theatres, of portraying 'the more horrid noise of target fight / By the blue-coated Stage-keepers[.]'