For the premiere of "The Universal Passion", an adaptation of "Much Ado About Nothing" by James Miller, the prologue included an "ecstatic eulogy of the Shakespeare Ladies Club":  Has slumb’ring lain near half a Cent’ry past, But now what Joy! to find the Night is o’er! To see the Lamp of Science shine once more; To see the Reign of Farce and Dulness end, And Albion’s noble Fair to Shakespear’s Sense attend. Fond to bring more of his rich Scenes to light: But conscious how unequal to the Task, Our Bard scarce dares your Clemency to ask: And as you smile or frown, he lives or dies: You are the ablest Judges of this Play, Since Love’s almighty Pow’r’s his Theme today: To your Protection Shakespear’s Offspring take, And save the Orphan for the Father’s Sake. On 4 March 1737 the manager of the New Haymarket Theater added "a New Prologue in the Characters of Shakespear’s Ghost, the Squire, Mr. Student, and Mr. Bays, concluding with an address to the Ladies of the Shakespear’s Club" to a performance of Shakespeare's "The Life and Death of King John". The benefit performance of "Julius Caesar" on 28 April 1738 included an epilogue from James Noel which echoed "Miller's metaphor of the Ladies' Club as mothers" responsible for the birth of Shakespeare as the nation's Poet:  Ow'd to such gen'rous virtue, ow'd to you! With grief you saw a bard neglected lie, Whom towring genius living raised so high. With grief you saw your Shakespeare's slighted state, And call'd forth merit from the grave of fate. Let others boast they smile on living worth; You give a buried bard a brighter birth. In addition to prologues the Shakespeare Ladies Club was also recognized in the daily newspapers. On 3 March 1737 the Grub Street Journal printed a letter from the ghosts of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, and Nicholas Rowe to the theatre going public praising the Shakespeare Ladies Club for encouraging common sense and setting a good example for the gentlemen. The next day, 4 March 1737, the Daily Advertiser published a letter from Shakespeare's ghost "to the Fair Supporters of Wit and Sense, the Ladies of Great Britain."