Scholarship has suggested a range of possible dates for the play. E. K. Chambers located it in the 1607–09 period.E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage, 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923; Vol. 3, p. 343. The title page of the 1655 quarto states that the drama was acted "by the Queen's servants", that is by Queen Anne's Men at the Red Bull Theatre. Heywood was a key member of that company as both actor and playwright, and Rowley was writing for them too at that time. But while being open to this earlier dating, analysis by Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson suggests limits of 1607-9 and 1619–26, with a 'best guess' of 1623 owing to Rowley's identifiable collaborations with Heywood during the 1620s.Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue10 volumes, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016; Vol. 7, p. 505.
