 The play was licensed for performance by Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels, on 15 October 1635.It was performed by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Cockpit Theatre in Drury Lane, in the final winter before the theatres suffered a long closure due to bubonic plague (May 1636 to October 1637) and Shirley himself left London for Dublin (1637).The 1637 quarto was printed by Thomas Cotes for the booksellers Andrew Crooke and William Cooke.