Charles Hart was noted for the title role. Thomas d'Urfey adapted the play into a version called "Bussy D'Ambois, or The Husband's Revenge" (1691). Jonathan Miller directed the first modern production of "Bussy D'Ambois" at The Old Vic (London) in 1988, with David Threlfall in the title role. Brice Stratford directed the second modern production of "Bussy D'Ambois" (as well as performing in the title role) at St Giles in the Fields (Chapman's burial site) in the Autumn of 2013, as part of the Owle Schreame theatre company's "Cannibal Valour Rep Season" of obscure classical theatre. Along with historical sources on the life of Louis de Bussy d'Amboise, Chapman, like Ben Jonson, makes rich use of classical allusions. "Bussy" features translated passages from the plays "Agamemnon" and "Hercules Oetaeus" of Seneca, plus the "Moralia" of Plutarch, the "Aeneid" and "Georgics" of Virgil, and the "Adagia" of Erasmus. The characters in the play quote or refer to the "Iliad" and to works by Empedocles, Themistocles, and Camillus. As the play opens, the aristocratic but impoverished Bussy, an unemployed soldier and an accomplished swordsman, is reflecting on the corrupt, avaricious, and violent society in which he lives. In the third line of his opening soliloquy, he expresses the radical view that "Who is not poor, is monstrous." Yet by the end of the scene Bussy has pocketed a thousand pounds to enter the service of Monsieur, the brother of the reigning King Henri III, who wishes to assemble a troupe of loyal henchmen to further his own political ends. From the start, Bussy shows that he is not cut out to be a follower: Monsieur's steward, who brings Bussy the payment, is rewarded for an impertinent attitude with a fist to his face. Subsequent scenes confirm the impression that Bussy's "cannibal valor" is too wild and uncontrolled to allow him to be a tool for ambitious nobles. He quarrels bloodily with courtiers who mock him; in a triple duel he is the one of the six combatants left standing. Bussy enters into an adulterous affair with Tamyra (), the wife of the powerful Count Mountsurry ( Count of Montsoreau).