The play is set in England during the Saxon era featuring two brothers in a love triangle with a young Christian woman.

It was staged at the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket enjoying a compartiviely successful run for the era of five consecutive nights, followed later by two request performances.

[2] Barton Booth played the role of Hengist, King of Kent with Robert Wilks as his brother Aribert.

Rowe dedicated the play to the Whig Junto member Lord Halifax.

As with many of his works, the plot was in line with his Whig views and supported the prospect of a Hanoverian Succession rather than their rival Jacobites.