 It has sometimes been identified as the seditious play, performed at the Cockpit in May 1640, which the Master of the Revels moved to have suppressed.However, the play's most recent editor, Marion O'Connor, dates it to "no earlier than the end of November 1640, and perhaps in the first months of 1641".The play was first published during the Interregnum, in the 1653 Brome collection "Five New Plays", issued by the stationers Humphrey Moseley, Richard Marriot, and Thomas Dring.