The 1931 edition of Lindsay's works by Douglas Hamer hypothesized different forms of the play.Hamer, Douglas, Works of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, vol.2, Scottish Text Society (1931-4), pp.1-8 The critic John MacQueen proposed the play might have been composed by Lindsay as early as 1532 for the court of the young James V of Scotland.MacQueen, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, SSL(1965-6), 129-43. An early form of the play is recorded in the royal treasurer's accounts and an English agent's report to Thomas Cromwell.Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, vol.7 (1907), pp.276-7, purchase of costumes in Jan. 1540 This short play or 'interlude' performed in January 1540 used characters who later appeared in the Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, and had the same themes.Joanne Spencer Kantrowitz, Dramatic Allegory:Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, University of Nebraska Press, 1975. Greg Walker,'Sir David Lindsay's Ane Satire of the Thrie Estaitis,' Scottish Literary Journal, 16.2 (Nov. 1989); Roderick Lyall, Ane Satyre of The Thrie Estaitis, edited with an introduction and commentary, Canongate Classics 18, 1989
