"Two inscriptions that appear on a pair of portraits in "Antonio and Mellida," which seem to indicate the date of the play’s first performance (1599) and the age of the author (24), and the prologue to "Antonio’s Revenge," which indicates a change of season—from summer to early winter—between the two productions, led E. K. Chambers to conclude, based on R. E. Brettle’s evidence for Marston’s birth in 1575, that "Antonio’s Revenge" could be dated to the early winter of 1599.